American Southern

Sweet Pickles

Name: Sweet Pickles
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 80 min
Yield: 16 servings
Ingredients: 7 lb tomatoes; 4 lb sugar; 1 oz cloves; 2 each cinnamon; 1 quart vinegar

Historic recipe from Malinda Russell's 1866 cookbook "A Domestic Cook Book". Page 34. One of the earliest known cookbooks by an African American author.

20 minPrep Time

60 minCook Time

16Servings

mediumDifficulty

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Instructions

1
Pour the vinegar, with the spices and sugar, boiling hot over the fruit, three mornings in succession, then cook the fruit thoroughly; take it out, and boil the syrup as much as you like.

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