Here’s another recipe for pickles from the handwritten cookbook, “Cross Country Cookery.” This time, the recipe is for Mustard Pickles.
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Blackberry Acid
Blackberry acid is a strange name for a cooling blackberry drink concentrate. This recipe comes from the Cross Country Cookery cookbook and the author added, “Mother’s recipe belonging to her Aunt “Gar. This is an old recipe – makes a delicious drink!” The one ingredient that threw me was “Tartaric Acid,” but I shouldn’t have…
Bread and Butter Pickles
This recipe for Bread and Butter Pickles comes from the lovingly handwritten and mimeographed Cross Country Cookery cookbook. Growing up, we had pickle relish and sweet midget pickles in the fridge. I would sometimes taste a dill pickle, but never bread & butter. So I was surprised at just how much I liked Bread &…
Pyracantha Jelly
This is an unusual recipe from the Cross Country Cookery cookbook. The author writes: I first saw this recipe in an Arizona Cookbook. I began to wonder about the berries of this plant in other states. I wrote the Cooperative Extension Service of Clemson University in S. C. They sent me the same recipe and assured…
Ida’s Pickled Okra
I was first introduced to okra at The Grit in Athens, Georgia and learned to adore the funky little pods. This recipe for Pickled Okra comes from the Cross Country Cookery cookbook – and they got the recipe from Ida Ramsey in Viola, Tennessee.