Green Tomato Chow

Credit to Verna Warnell from Facebook in the "Cape Breton Cook Book" group.

This is the one I have been making for over 50 years - it is an old Lunenburg County recipe: GREEN TOMATO CHOW

Ingredients

6 - 7 lbs. green tomatoes

4 large onions

½ cup coarse salt

2 cups sugar

2 cups pickling vinegar

2 tsp. dry mustard

½ tsp. turmeric

2 tbsps. pickling spice 

Stuff you will need

Cutting board and sharp knife

Large stock pot

Long handled mixing spoon

Colander

Mesh bag for the pickling spices

Directions

Chunk tomatoes and onions. Sprinkle with ½ cup coarse salt and let stand overnight. Next day, rinse off and drain well.

Bring brine ingredients (Sugar, pickling vinegar, mustard, turmeric and pickling spices) to a boil. Add drained tomatoes and onions; return to boil, and simmer until tomatoes and onions are quite soft (approx. 15-20 min).

Makes 6-8 pints.