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coconutcakes
True Blue Farmgirl
52 Posts
Emily
Summerfield
NC
USA
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 Posted - Apr 13 2006 : 1:56:01 PM
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I haven't personally made this recipe, but I can pretty much assure that anything coming from this particular recipe's author is very tasty. Mama Dip, real name Mildred Council, is famous for her Southern homecooking. . . All of her food I've ever had is delish. This is a recipe from her book Mama Dip's Kitchen. Her restaurant is in Chapel Hill, NC, and you can also do a search for her website. She may even sell the chow-chow now as I know she sells some of her other condiments.
Mama Dip's Chow-chow
The perfect mate for dried beans. Chop the vegetables fine or coarse, as you prefer.
3 tablespoons pickling spice
2 tablespoons salt
4 cups water
4 medium red bell peppers, seeded and chopped
2 cups chopped onion
1 small cabbage, chopped
2 cups chopped green tomatoes
2 cups vinegar
1 cup sugar
1 hot pepper pod, chopped
Add the pickling spice and salt to the water in a small pot. Bring to a boil and let boil for 10 minutes. Mix all the remaining ingredients together in a large pot and add the spiced water, pouring it through a strainer. Let cook slowly for 35 to 45 minutes, stirring often. Taste for seasoning. Store in sterile half-pint jars or refrigerate. Makes about 12 small jars.
(Good Luck with it! Emily)
"After a long period abroad nothing could make me more homesick or emotional than an American magazine ad of a luscious layer cake, except one, and that was a pictured lemon pie." Irma Rombauer, Joy of Cooking (1943) |
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akcowgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Valerie
Homer
Alaska
USA
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Posted - Apr 14 2006 : 12:27:05 PM
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I think i will have to try this, it has intreged(sp) me. Thanks
Valerie
Alaska Girl all the way
Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before.
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LJRphoto
True Blue Farmgirl
760 Posts
Laura
Hickory Corners
MI
USA
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Posted - Apr 14 2006 : 4:00:29 PM
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Thanks Emily! What a nice surprise to see a posting "just for me." :)
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect." -Mark Twain
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theherblady
True Blue Farmgirl
510 Posts
Jan
Glasford
Illinois
USA
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Posted - Apr 17 2006 : 07:35:48 AM
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I saw Mama Dip on a cooking show once ...and ordered her cookbook...Alot of good "down south" recipes in that one~~!
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Annab
True Blue Farmgirl
2900 Posts
Anna
Seagrove
NC
USA
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Posted - Apr 20 2006 : 03:53:24 AM
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Coconut! I live near the zoo in NC and my family who live near Chapel Hill. We have become big fans of Mamma Dip's for 5 years now. It's great cooking!
I believe sometime back she went to that Fearrington Village and did a cook book signing.
Kudos to anyone who starts up a business like this and betters themselves. |
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coconutcakes
True Blue Farmgirl
52 Posts
Emily
Summerfield
NC
USA
52 Posts |
Posted - Apr 21 2006 : 11:22:40 AM
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Annab,
I live up in Guilford County. . . nice to know there's some other NC 'Farmgirls' around. Years and years ago, some of my kin farmed on some of the Fearrington Village land. Then they sold it off to the Fearrington Village developers, I believe. I've only been to Fearrington once, and I enjoyed visiting the "Belties" (those cows) and a plant nursery.
I need to get my little boys back down to the zoo before it gets too hot!
Mama Dip's is great, and I've heard some bragging on her fried chicken. But the best is in a little place near downtown Charlotte. It's called Price's Chicken Coop. The absolute best fried chicken I've ever had in my entire life. . . somehow, they really get the flavor down in the meat. It's incredible! So if you're ever that way, do go!
(I still like to put my chow chow on hamburgers and deli meat sandwiches the best!)
Emily
"After a long period abroad nothing could make me more homesick or emotional than an American magazine ad of a luscious layer cake, except one, and that was a pictured lemon pie." Irma Rombauer, Joy of Cooking (1943) |
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Annab
True Blue Farmgirl
2900 Posts
Anna
Seagrove
NC
USA
2900 Posts |
Posted - Apr 21 2006 : 11:54:29 AM
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Chow-chow is so good! I can most of what we grow, but just don't have the motivation for all the chopping. We have cabbage coming up nicely now, so at least the recipe is filed away in my archives......just in case, you know
We bought a truck from the farmer who does AI on beef cattle- including some of the belties ! The calves are the cutest!!
I'm sad about all that land being developed though. It's kind of bittersweet.
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