Recipe

Chow-chow Recipe

	Nainajani / All my dishes 3 months, 3 weeks ago A chinese recipe Prep:30m Cook:35m Servings:4	Nainajani
	chow chow chinese beans

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Ingredients

1 quart small onions

1 pint string beans

1 pint lima beans

3 green peppers

3 red peppers

1 head cauliflower

6 medium cucumbers

1/4 peck(a peck is an 8 quart basket) green tomatoes

Cook all vegetables except the peppers and cucumbers until tender (15 minutes). Cook these(peppers, cucumbers) shorter time(5-10). Drain and mix everything together. Pour dressing (recipe follows) over and mix again. Put in sterilized jars and seal. Cold pack 10 minutes from boiling.

Dressing:

2 cups sugar

1 quart vinegar

1 quart water

Let come to a slow boil;

Add

5-6 Tablespoons flour

1 Tablespoon Turmeric powder

1 Tablespoon prepared mustard

1 Tablespoon celery seed (add these dry ingredients as you would when making gravy. mix with small amounts of liquid until have a thin paste, then add to rest of liquid. Saves on lumps!)

Directions

Boil until dressing is slightly thick. This is an Amish recipe. The farm women made it to use up any vegetables left in the garden a frost time, so vegetables would vary, as well as quanities.

I first made this when I moved to Pennsylvania Dutch country in 1964. The recipe came from a retired farm woman who lived across the road. Not being a farmer, not even having a garden, I bought all the ingredients at the farmer's market. My husband figured the cost and time involved and told me I'd be better off buying a jar at the stand in market.....which is what I have done ever since!

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