GREEN PAWPAW SWEET AND SOUR PICKLE
Ingredients:
4 cups grated green pawpaw
½ cup salt
1 cup vinegar
1 carrot, sliced
2/3 cup sugar
½ green capsicum, sliced
½ red capsicum, sliced
1 onion, sliced
1 tsp salt
Method:
Boil the syrup long enough to melt the sugar.
Add ½ cup salt to the grated pawpaw. Work with hands and express the juice. (Wrap pawpaw by handfuls in a cheesecloth to express the juice better).
Spread the squeezed pawpaw on a tray and let stand for 1 hour.
Put the green pawpaw and the other vegetables in jars.
Pour the boiled syrup in and seal tightly.
DATE: February 1998
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