Tomatoes

[ Tomatoes ]

Date: Late 18th or early 19th century; exact date unknown.

Publication Format
Manuscript

Type
Food

Ingredients
tomatoes
mace
cloves
cinnamon
vinegar

Places
Nova Scotia
America

Source: Militia Regulations Book
Institution: Nova Scotia Archives | Reference: MG 100 Vol. 1 No. 5 / Microfilm Reel 786

Description

Instructions for preparing ripe tomatoes pasted in the pages of a book of Militia Regulations.


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Transcription

from Aunt Margaret's American

Cooking Book -- Tomatoes

    Prick the skins of fair

ripe tomatoes, spread them in

layers, on each layer, put pounded

mace, cloves, & cinnamon, and pour

cold vinegar on the whole -- the

vinegar from Tomatoes thus