Garden Relish Recipes

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, bring 8 cups water to a boil. Add tomatoes, a few at a time; boil for 30 seconds. Drain and immediately place tomatoes in ice water. Drain and pat dry; peel and finely chop. Place in a stockpot. Add onions and peppers., Place mustard and celery seed on a double thickness of cheesecloth; bring up corners of cloth and tie with string to form a bag. Add spice bag and the remaining ingredients to the pot. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, for 60-75 minutes or until slightly thickened. Discard spice bag., Carefully ladle relish into hot 1-pint jars, leaving 1/2-in. headspace. Remove air bubbles; wipe rims and adjust lids. Process in boiling-water canner for 20 minutes.

Steps:

• Toss first 5 ingredients; let stand 3 hours. Drain; squeeze and blot dry with paper towels., In a Dutch oven, mix sugar, vinegar, celery seed and mustard seed; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, 5 minutes. Add vegetables; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, 20 minutes., Ladle hot mixture into hot 1-pint jars, leaving 1/2-in. headspace. Remove air bubbles and adjust headspace, if necessary, by adding hot mixture. Wipe rims. Center lids on jars; screw on bands until fingertip tight., Place jars into canner with simmering water, ensuring that they are completely covered with water. Bring to a boil; process for 20 minutes. Remove jars and cool.

Steps:

• Grind the cabbages, carrots, onions and peppers in a food chopper (I grated), then add salt and let stand 2 hours.
• Place in a colander and drain.
• Wash if mixture is too salty.
• Add the vinegar, sugar, celery seed and mustard seed and stir well.
• Heat and pour into sterilized jars and seal.
• Variation: Instead of carrots, I used grated summer squash, green tomatoes and added 6-8 hot jalapeno peppers.

Steps:

• Grate all the vegetables equalling 4 quarts, in a food processor then place in a large container.
• Add salt, cover with water and allow to stand for 1 hour.
• While the vegetables are soaking, in a large pot, add the sugar, vinegar and pickling spice.
• Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer.
• Drain and rinse the vegetables well squeezing out all liquid; add to the pot and bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat; simmer 30 minutes.
• Stir frequently.
• Pour the relish into hot, sterilized pint jars.
• Wipe rims, place lids and screw bands on fingertip-tight; process 15 minutes in a boiling bath.
• Remove to a protected surface to cool, undisturbed, for 24 hours.

Steps:

• Finely chop onions, cabbage, tomatoes, and peppers.
• This can be either with a food processor or with a blender.
• Chunk the vegetables to fill the blender ½ full, then filling with water.
• Combine salt and vegetables in a large pot with enough water to cover and let sit over night.
• Squeeze as much of the water out as possible.
• You can use cheesecloth for this.
• For low sodium version the mixture can be rinsed and drained well.
• Combine sugar, celery seed, vinegar, and water.
• Bring to a boil.
• Add vegetables and food coloring to give it a more appealing appearance.
• Bring to a boil.
• Either continue to slow boil for 15 minutes then add to jars and seal, or add to jars and process using a water bath canner.

Steps:

• Chop the vegetables by hand or in a food processor. Mix together.
• Add salt, mix and refrigerate overnight.
• Mix vinegar, water, brown sugar, mustard, tumeric and celery seed. Boil for 5 minutes.
• Drain vegetables and add to liquid. Return to a boil; then pour in hot jars and seal.

Steps:

• chop all vegetables into 1/4 inch pieces
• mix salt.
• in veggies
• add cold water barely to cover.
• let stand 4 hours in cool place.
• drain.
• put veggies and rest of ingredients into preserving kettle
• let mixture boil 8 minutes
• pour hot relish
• up to 1/4 top of hot sterilized jars.
• wipe top.
• seal.
• put domed lids screw bands tight( see told you it was old).