Making Old Fashion Pickle Relish (Chow-Chow)- Part 2

[kmkdenali]

Yup, that's 8 jars, alright!

[MarinePrepper]

sir i got all of the recipe and watched it three times but you never said how much water to add to the vinegar and sugar brine please help or did i miss it somehow 3 times lol ty for making this video

[Sherri119]

I haven't heard it called chow chow since I lived in Louisiana. It looks yummy!

[johnrob281]

@Sherri119 --- Yep, that's what we called it. I grew up in Louisiana also!

[Sherri119]

@johnrob281 I lived there from age 3 to about 9 (then moved back to Texas, my home state). I loved La. I remember tying bacon on a string and catching crawdads that way and taking them home and G'ma cooking them in butter for me. Filling buckets with catawba (?) worms for fishing....being sent up pecan trees to jump on the limbs to make more pecans fall.... Now I'm homesick!

[junesyl]

i really enjoyed this video :) great info

[rhblankenship]

I'm new to canning and I need some verification. Do you take the chow mix and put it in the brine, boil it for 3 to 4 minutes, then take it out of the brine and place in jars?

Do you poor the brine into the jar when its full of the chow chow?

[johnrob281]

@rhblankenship --- Thanks for viewing my video. The way I do is to boil the chow mix in the vingar/sugar mix for about 3-4 minutes. The fill the jar with the chow mix and then put mix in jar to about 1/4 inch below the jar rim. Hope this helps ---John---

[georgeky1]

Not totally a lost art. I make a bunch of it every year. Of course I was raised in the old school on a tobacco/cattle farm here in KY. I seldom use cucumbers. I mostly use cabbage, green maters, onions and peppers. Tastes the same and it is good stuff.

[ggmorvaj]

It's pretty amazing that your southern chow-chow was also the traditional relish here in Ontario(Canada).At least until the 60's(The commercial fake-green-cucumber kind's taken over.)

The only real difference is that we tend to use a lot of green tomatoes in ours. And usually no red peppers,just green. Thank you for sharing this....I'm tempted to try making it your way.BTW you give a really good,easy to follow demonstration!!

[johnrob281]

Thanks for your comments. Guess it really is no 'regional' dish! And to think I thought chow-chow was a southern food.

[ggmorvaj]

No, please don't thank me because you earned the compliment,totally.....& I don't doubt it's a southern food, just because it's popular up here doesn't really make it any less southern.....but your way of using cukes instead of (Canadian style)green tomatoes & using red peppers sounds delicious & I'm going to try it. All the best.

[keltrce]

My Grandmother from Fredricksberg Texas could make great Chow Chow.

It's a lost art , great video!

[johnrob281]

Thanks for your comments. I agree, it appears to be a lost art. Especially the kind using cabbage and cucumbers as its main ingredients. Most people dont even know what chow-chow is. But.. my goodness, is it good!

[HippyEater]

Holy crap does that look good. How long does the canning take per glass would you estimate?