Cucumber Relish

[Millymollymandy]

CUCUMBER RELISH

Ingredients

4 cups ground, unpeeled cucumbers (about 4)
1 cup ground green pepper (about 2)
½ cup ground red pepper (about 1)
3 cups ground onions
3 cups finely diced celery
¼ cup salt
3 ½ cups sugar
2 cups white vinegar
1 tablespoon celery seeds
1 tablespoon mustard seeds


Use coarse blade on grinder, combine all vegetables in large bowl, sprinkle with salt.

Cover with cold water, let stand 4 hours, drain thoroughly in colander, press out all excess liquid.

Combine sugar, vinegar, celery seed and mustard seed.

Bring to a boil, stirring until sugar is dissolved.

Stir in drained vegetables, simmer 10 minutes.

Pack into jars to within ½ inch of the top.

Put on cap, screw band firmly tight.

Process in boiling water bath 10 minutes.

Yields 5-6 pints.

We just put the relish into sterilised jars and don’t do the boiling water bath thing. Likewise use the food processor to finely chop the vegetables but not until they are a mush. We used a tea cup as our measure and it worked fine – ours holds 8 ½ fl oz/230ml. For vinegar the first time we used white wine vinegar but I can't get it any more so used cider vinegar this last time.

[shiney]

Thanks for the recipe MMM,

I like any sort of pickle, relish or chutney I can whack in a sarnie with some cheese!

I'll keep this recipe handy. My mum is over from France and is the most fabulous cook. Needless to say, I'll get her making some!

[diver]

thanks very much...I have a glut of cucumbers all stored in the cellar so I shall make some of this tomorrow

[diver]

you're a star M3 ,I have just made the relish and I used a teacup like you did and I have now got 6 jars of delicious looking relish. I can't believe how good it looks....if it tastes half as good as it looks I will make another batch...BUT how long do I have to leave it before I can eat it, thanks again

[Millymollymandy]

I don't know, Diver as the recipe didn't say. But I think it's usually 1 month for most things isn't it? Bit late for the BBQ season sadly!

[diver]

thanks, I will leave it for a month, and now that my celery can be picked I am going to make another batch tomorrow..I also like it because you can adjust all the quantities together just by changing the size of the cup

[Chickenlady]

Oh, that looks lovely! Sadly, no glut of cucumbers here, but if I can pick up some cheap in the market...

[Millymollymandy]

I made mine without celery this time and only green pepper but the last time we didn't have celery seed so I'm interested to see how it has come out like - I guess we'll be having a nibble soon - so I'll keep you posted!

[Millymollymandy]

Had some last night and it's only 3 weeks since I made it. It is yummy so you don't need to wait a month!