Chili Sauce

21/2 pounds light brown sugar 40 good-sized tomatoes 12 onions

3 red peppers

4 green peppers

2 heaping tablespoons salt 11/2 pints white vinegar 2 teaspoons spices

Method :

Boil peppers, onions (chopped), salt, vinegar and sugar twenty minutes, then add peeled and cut tomatoes, and cook three-fourths hour. Add spices (cinnamon, cloves and allspice) ten minutes before taking up.

Frances Pitkin Allen, Nu and Omicron.

Watermelon Pickles

8 pounds fruit pared 4 pounds of sugar 1 quart vinegar 1 cup mixed whole spice

1 ginger root or cassia bud cloves allspice

Method :

Cook all ingredients except fruit for ten minutes Add fruit and cook forty-five minutes, or until mottled and clear and glazed. Pour off liquid for following three days and boil three minutes. Keep in covered crock.

Gladys Mars Becker, Xi

Green Tomato Pickle (Chopped)

3 quarts green tomatoes

2 red peppers

1 quart chopped cucumber pickles

1 quart onions 3 bunches celery

Dressing:

1/4 pound ground mustard

1 cup flour

1/2 pound celery seed

1/2 gallon vinegar 2 cups sugar

Method :

Chop tomatoes, peppers and onions fine. Sprinkle salt over the same and let stand over night. Chop celery fine and add with cucumber pickles to the above. Mix dry ingredients and add to the boiling vinegar. Cook until thick then add the chopped vegetables. Bring to a boil and can.

Harriet Wilson Davy, Xi.

Grape Juice

1 basket grapes water

2 pounds sugar

Method :

Cover grapes with water and boil to pieces. Strain and add heated sugar (2 pounds sugar to five to six pounds grapes). Boil up a couple of times and put in bottles.

Frances Pitkin Allen, Xi and Omicron.

Watermelon Pickles Fruit peeled and cut in squares (do not soak over night) 1 pint vinegar 6 cups sugar 1/2 cup cassia buds

3 or 4 small pieces ginger root

Method :

Steam until tender. Boil other ingredients ten or fifteen minutes until quite thick. Add the steamed or transparent pickles and cook for a few minutes more. Can while hot.

Orletta Rideout Bennett, Omicron.

Pickled Peaches

Same recipe as watermelon pickles using only the spices cinnamon and cloves.

Gladys Mars Becker, Xi.

Orange Marmalade 6 oranges 5 lemons

Method :

Peel and boil peelings fifteen minutes. Pour off water, recover with water and boil fifteen minutes. Pour off - chop fruit and parings together. Add two cups of water to each cup of fruit. Boil one hour. Measure and add one cup of sugar to each cup of fruit. Boil one-half hour and pour into glasses. Makes eighteen glasses.

Lois Goltra Heren, Xi.

Pie Plant Confection

1 large orange or two small ones

1/2 pound shelled walnuts or one pound unshelled

3 pounds pie plant 1 lemon

31/2 pounds sugar

Method :

Cut up pie plant as for stewing, skin and all. Put in two-thirds sugar with it. Pare orange and cut off white carefully. Also lemon. Cut up in pieces and cover with remaining sugar. Let both stand over night. In morning stew pie plant and when done put in orange, etc., and cook twenty minutes. Makes ten glasses.

Julia Winchell Campbell, Xi.