Spiced Green Tomatoes

The Farmer's Markets are in full swing all over New England, with their bins of kale, peppers, lettuce and everything else that's leafy and green. It's not quite tomato season yet, but you might be able to find some green ones.




Spiced Green Tomatoes

5 lbs green tomatoes, sliced
5 1/2 cup sugar
2 cups vinegar
1 tsp whole cloves
1 tsp whole allspice
1 TB white mustard seed
1 TB cinnamon

- Wash but don't peel the tomatoes.
- Combine all the ingredients and cook gently until tomatoes turn clear.

Peach Pie

Summertime at Grammy's always included pies. We're a little late in the season for peaches, perhaps, but still delicious.


Peach Pie

2 pie crusts, pre-made
1 cup sugar
pinch of salt
3 TB quick-cooking tapioca
1 ts lemon juice
4 cups sliced peaches
2 TB butter or margarine
1/4 ts nutmeg

-Mix peach slices with lemon juice
-Mix dry ingredients
-Butter pie plate, lay bottom crust in
-Arrange peaches over bottom crust
-Cover with dry mixture
-Add chunks of butter, top with tapioca
-Place top pie crust over top. Bake at 350 degrees for 35-45 minutes

Grammy's Cookbook

For the past year, I've been holding on to a copy of Grammy's cookbook, a 1942 copy of "The Pocket Cookbook". It's quite fragile, almost 70 years later; I wasn't entirely sure how to scan it without it completely falling to bits.


As suggested by one of my siblings, we decided to photograph the recipes in the book. You'll be seeing a few recipes over the next few months that look like the above photograph.

We love, by the way, that Chapter 9 is called "Penny Stretchers"

Ice Box Cookies

It was well into the 90s in Massachusetts today, and this recipe was selected entirely because it contains the phrase "ice box".
I feel cooler already.

Ice Box Cookies

2 cups brown sugar
1/2 cup oleo/butter
3 eggs
1/2 ts salt
1/2 ts cream of tarter
1/2 ts baking soda
1 ts vanilla
1 cup nuts
3 1/2 cup flour

- Mix wet ingredients; mix dry ingredients; mix everything together.
- Form dough into a log shape.
- Refrigerate or freeze dough log until needed.
- Slice cookie rounds from log and place on greased cookie sheet.
- Bake at 425 degrees for 5-8 minutes.