2 1/2 lb Pork

2 lb Raisins

1 1/2 lb Apples

1 lb Dried apricots

1 lb Dried peaches

1/4 lb Citron

2 ts Cinnamon

1 ts Cloves

1 ts Spice

1 1/2 c Brown sugar

1 c Cider

Grind and mix all ingredients together. Simmer two hours. Can and seal.

4 Garlic cloves

4 Celery stalks

4 Hot red peppers

4 Heads dill

1 qt Water

1/2 c Pickling salt

2 qt White vinegar

Pack 3 1/2 lbs. cherry tomatoes in hot quart jars. To each quart, add a garlic clove, a celery stalk, a hot red pepper, and a head of dill. Combine water, pickling salt and vinegar. Boil. Fill jars to 1/2″ from top. Process 10 minutes in boiling water bath. From Maggie Hennessey in _A Taste of West Virginia: A Book of Favorite Recipes_. Leawood, KS: Circulation Service, Inc., 1991. Pp. 10-11.

1/2 cup water 2 1/2 c ;Water

3 lb Mangoes*

1 c Onions; in 1/4″ dice

1 c Golden raisins

1 c Dried currants

4 tb Fresh ginger; minced
– or more to taste

3 lg Garlic cloves; minced fine

1 Lemon; grated zest of

2 c Light brown sugar; packed

3/4 c Sugar

2 tb Mustard seed

1 tb Salt

2 ts Dried red pepper; crushed**

2 ts Ground cinnamon

1/2 ts Turmeric

1/4 ts Ground cloves

1/4 ts Cayenne pepper
– or more to taste

1 1/2 c Distilled white vinegar

*Mangoes can be unripe, half-ripe or part unripe and part ripe. Using part or all almost-ripe fruit will yield a chutney with a softer texture. If you like jammy chutney, cut the fruit into small bits; for a chunky product, use 1/2″ or larger cubes and stop cooking the mixture as soon as the fruit pieces are translucent.

**In place of the crushed dried red pepper, can substitute 2 dried hot peppers (each 2 1/2 to 3″ long) which have been seeded and crumbled, or 1 tb. finely minced red or green fresh hot peppers. Increase any of these if you are sure you want a hotter chutney.

Crumble tamarind into a small bowl and stir in 1 1/2 cups of the water; let tamarind soak for at least an hour, meanwhile preparing the remaining ingredients. Or substitute the fresh lime juice plus 1/2 cup of water at this point. Peel and dice the mangoes, cutting them into small pieces for a jamlike chutney, into 1/2″ or larger dice for a chunky mixture. Place the pieces in a preserving pan. Add the onions, raisins, currants, ginger, garlic, lemon zest, brown and granulated sugars, mustard seed, salt, crushed hot red pepper, cinnamon, turmeric, cloves, ground red pepper, white vinegar and the remaining 1 cup water; stir the mixture and let it rest until the tamarind “juice” is ready, or for up to several hours, if that is convenient. When the tamarind pulp is very soft, strain the liquid through a sieve, pressing it to remove all possible liquid and any pulp that will pass through. Discard the pulp remaining in the sieve. Add the liquid to the chutney mixture. Set the pan over medium heat and bring the ingredients to a boil. Lower the heat so the mixture simmers and cook it, uncovered, stirring often, until the mango and onion pieces are translucent and the chutney has thickened to the consistency of preserves, 1 to 2 hours depending on the firmness of the fruit. (The chutney will thicken further in the jar, so don’t reduce it too much.) If the chutney threatens to stick before the mango pieces are translucent, add a little water. Remove chutney from the heat, cool a sample, and taste it for tartness, sweetness, and degree of hotness. (The overall flavor is elusive at this point, but these factors can be judged.) If you wish, add a little more vinegar, sugar or ground hot red pepper. Reheat the chutney to boiling and ladle it into hot, clean pint or half-pint canning jars, leaving 1/4″ of headspace. Seal the jars; process for 15 minutes (for either size jar) in a boiling-water bath. Cool, label, and store the jars for a least a month so that its many flavors can blend and balance. This will keep for at least a year in a cool pantry. Yield: 6 to 7 cups. From _Fancy Pantry_ by Helen Witty. New York: Workman Publishing Company, Inc., 1986. Pp. 56-58. ISBN 0-89480-037-X.

2 tb Salt

1 qt Cold water

1 oz Mustard seed

1 1/4 oz Dry mustard

3 c Granulated sugar

2 tb Turmeric

1 1/2 c Flour

Red pepper to taste

2 qt Cider vinegar

1 Lemon; juice and rind

Be sure that all tough fiber is trimmed from heart of palm. Cut the tender white portion of heart into small strips. Place these strips to soak in salted water. Let sit in a cool place for two days. On the morning of the third day, pour off all salt water, wash palm pieces well in clear water and drain. Mix the mustard seed, mustard, sugar, turmeric, flour, red pepper and vinegar. Boil slowly, stirring with a wooden spoon. Add the juice of a lemon and the rind, sliced into tiny slivers. Cook 10 minutes. Add the pieces of palm, bring to a boil, and boil 2 minutes. Fill hot, sterilized pint jars with the pickles and seal while hot. From _Our Best Recipes_ by Lena E. Sturges, Food Editor. Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, Inc., 1970. Pg. 184. Library of Congress Catalog Number 70-140493.

1/4″ thick 2 lg Carrots; peeled

cut into sticks 2 Garlic cloves; crushed

1 Bay leaf

3 lg Sprigs fresh dill

3/4 c White vinegar

1 1/4 c Water

3 tb Sugar

1 ts Mustard seed

1/2 ts Dill seed

1/4 ts Red chili flakes

1 ts Salt

Parboil carrots for 3 minutes. Mix kohlrabi and carrots; pack in a 1 qt. glass jar along with garlic, bay leaf and fresh dill. In a saucepan, combine pickling mixture. Heat, stirring, until it boils and sugar is dissolved. Pour boiling mixture over kohlrabi, filling jar completely. Cover jar. When cool, refrigerate for 3 to 4 days before using to let flavors blend. From 1994 Shepherd’s Garden Seeds Catalog, pg. 20.