This recipe calls for a box of brown sugar. That is the only way you could get brown sugar years ago so a lot of older recipes are written this way. A box of brown sugar is 1 pound, 16 oz. or 2 1/3 cups.
Chow-Chow Relish
1 medium cabbage
4 medium onions
3 green peppers
2 red or hot peppers (I used red)
3 Tbsp. salt
1 Tbsp. mustard seed
1 Tbsp. turmeric
5 medium tomatoes (not quite ripe)
2 cups cider vinegar
1 box brown sugar
Wash 9-10 pint jars in hot soapy water. Sterilize jars by boiling in water for 10 minutes. Keep jars hot until ready to fill. Using a food processor, grind all the ingredients except tomatoes, vinegar and brown sugar. Chop tomatoes by hand. Mix all ingredients (except the vinegar and sugar). Let stand for 30 minutes and strain excess water if necessary. In a large pot, add vegetables, 2 cups cider vinegar and 1 box of brown sugar. Cook until mixture boils. Place in jars and process for 30 minutes in a boiling water bath. Note: Makes 9-10 pints, and is absolutely fabulous on hot dogs!!
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This stuff is sooooo good with cornbread and Southern-style beans. Mmmmmmm.
how much is a box of brown sugar? in canada sizes can vary wildly. looking forward to trying this out. really enjoy this site for all the info. thanks
You use to could only get brown sugar in a box so that is why many old recipes have this and even many women of my generation still use boxes of brown or powdered sugar. 1 box of brown sugar is 1 pound, 16 oz. or 2 1/3 cups.
Good question because I buy it by in the bag too so have to always do some figuring. Hopes this helps.
Jill
I agree with Ms. Marcia. It is great on pinto beans. I also like to eat it on my burgers. Thanks for the recipe!
I love this stuff, but is there anyway that you can just make it without canning it or just in smaller bunches? I would love to know, since I am single and don’t have any need for that much.
I love reading Living on a Dime, I have found some very helpful ideas and there are alot of recipes that brings back memories of my younger days…Keep up the good work!
Nona, you can take the recipe and divide it in half or fourths what ever amount you think you can use and then store it in the fridge instead of canning it. Because of the vinegar(acid base) etc. it will keep for a long time the same way you can keep an open jar of pickles in the fridge for a long time.
Now I know it may seem hard to divide it into fourths – for example 3 green peppers – but this recipe isn’t exact and you could use 1 green pepper. You can see it isn’t exact too because some people will use 3 large green peppers and others will use 3 medium ones so you can adjust it according to what you have or how you need too.
is it sweet with the brown sugar in it ? .. just curious ..
it looks deliciious .. altho i have never tried this b4 .. i do like cabbage, onions and peppers .. and even at the same time (esp when i make italian sausage, with or without on the hoagie roll) ..
thanks for sharing
Rose it is one of those recipes that is kind of a sweet/sour taste combined or like a salsa. Many salsas have brown sugar or some sweet in them they just use different veggies from this. Also I haven’t done it but I am pretty sure you could adjust the amount of brown sugar to your own taste too.
This is one of those old recipes that you more or less threw what you had into it and called it chow chow.
I use a recipe I inherited from my grandmother. It uses grated zucchini instead of cabbage and no tomatoes. It is so good. I use it on cornbread and beans (pinto)and on hotdogs. This is the only way I use zucchini. I beg really big ones from friends who grow it.