90 KATE AITKEN’S CANADIAN COOK BOOK

PICKLED WATERMELON RIND

114 quarts watermelon rind, 1 cup cider vinegar

diced 2 tablespoons mixed pickling
3 tablespoons salt spice

3 quarts water 3-3” sticks cinnamon

4 cups brown sugar

After the pink flesh is cut off and used, peel off the green skin
from the rind. Dice and measure—you should have 1!%4 quarts.
Soak overnight in a mixture of | quart of water and the salt. In
the morning, drain and rinse; cover with 1 quart cold water and
simmer till tender; drain till no moisture remains. Make a syrup of
the remaining | quart of water, the sugar and vinegar. Add the
spices, tied loosely in a bag; simmer 5 minutes. We use the mini-
mum of syrup in the recipe to save the sugar, so add only half the
watermelon cubes to the syrup. Simmer, tightly covered, till clear
(about 45 minutes). Remove from the syrup, place in sterile jars
and add the remaining half of the raw cubes to the syrup. Again,
cook till transparent and place in sterile jars. There should be
enough syrup left to fill jars. Seal at once. Yield: 3 pint jars.

CHILI FRUIT RELISH

24 large ripe tomatoes 2 green peppers (sweet)

6 peaches Y% cup whole pickling spice
6 pears (tied in a bag)

6 apples 2 tablespoons salt
6 onions 3 cups white sugar

2 red peppers (sweet) 4 cups cider vinegar

Scald and skin the tomatoes; cut in pieces; put in a large pre-
serving kettle. Scald, skin and dice the peaches; peel, core and dice
the pears and apples. Peel and finely chop the onions; seed and
dice the peppers. Add all the fruits and vegetables to the tomatoes;
mix well. Add the spices tied loosely in a bag, the salt, sugar and
vinegar. Let stand for 2 hours before boiling; simmer gently till
thick (about 2 hours). Yield: approximately 8 pints.

UNCOOKED RELISH

3 hot red peppers 2 cups cider vinegar
12 large green tomatoes, 2 cups brown sugar
unpeeled 5 tablespoons salt
12 MacIntosh Red apples, V4 cup lemon juice
cored and unpeeled 1 tablespoon mustard seed

1 large onion, skinned

Remove the seeds and stems from peppers. Put the peppers,
tomatoes, apples and onion through the food chopper, using the