Sides, sauces & preserves

Relish

Ingredients

Vegetables

  • 10 bell peppers, deseeded, minced
  • 10 onions, minced
  • 3 cucumbers, minced
  • 1 kg white cabbage, minced2¼ lb white cabbage, minced
  • ¼ cup salt

Pickling liquid

  • 3 cups vinegar (the page says 'ediksýra (óbl)', acetic acid; use ordinary vinegar of about 6%, not concentrated acetic acid)
  • ½ cup water
  • 4 cups sugar
  • 2 tbsp mustard seeds
  • 2 tbsp dried celery flakes
  • ½ tsp turmeric

Method

Vegetables

  1. Mince all the vegetables, e.g. in a mincer or food processor.
  2. Sprinkle over ¼ cup salt, mix and leave overnight.
  3. Next day, tip the vegetables into a sieve, rinse and drain well.

Pickling liquid

  1. Bring all the pickling-liquid ingredients to the boil in a large pan.
  2. Add the vegetables and boil for about 5 minutes.
  3. Pack hot into clean, hot jars and seal straight away.

As she wrote it

Her page in the recipe book
Relish
10papr - 10 laukar - 3 agúrk 1kg. hvítkál → allt hakkað
Hellt yfir 1/4 b salt, látið liggja yfir nótt
Lögur: Lögur: 3b. ediksýra ((or ábl)) 1/2 b. vatn - 4b sykur 2msk. sinnepsfræ 2 msk. sellerýflögur 1/2 tsk. Turmerik
Allur lögur soðin, allt hráefni soðið í ca. 5min Sett á glös → lokað