Saturday, June 29, 2013

I started a square foot garden this year.   My Dad had half the back yard as a garden when I was a kid.  All I remember is picking weeds.   Wish I knew all the garden information he had now.   But I planted a few tomatoes,  sweet and bell peppers, onions,  leaf lettuce and some squash.  
My main reason for this garden was to grow my own vegetables I needed to make my Aunt Martha's "Oscar Sauce."  
I searched and searched for years for this recipe online and never found anything.  Then one day while looking through a website that had old recipes I seen something very familiar.  I believe my Aunt Martha and my Grandmother must have adapted their recipe from it.    Here is the link to that recipe on my Pintrest page
  http://pinterest.com/pin/95560823313206960/ .    
The very next day after finding this recipe,  my Aunt Martha's son came to me and asked me if he bought the ingredients and gave me the recipe, if I would can some for him.   So there it was....  the hand written recipe from my Aunt Martha for her Oscar Sauce!   It was like gold to me.  
Whether you make the recipe from the news paper or my Aunt Martha's,  I bet you will enjoy both.

Oscar Sauce 

15 Tomatoes
2 Hot peppers
2 cups white vinegar
3 Large Onions
2 Tbls salt
6 Red or Green peppers (I use both, looks pretty)
3 cups sugar

Skin tomatoes by placing them in hot water for a min or so and then cold water.  Cut into quarters.  Grind peppers and onions then mix all ingredients together and cook until thick.  Skim foam off top if there is any. 
Fill qt. jars with hot relish and process 15 min. in canner.

We use this relish on hamburgers and minute steaks the most but it is also good on chicken.
I have also used it as an appitizer by putting a little cream cheese on a cracker and then a  little bit of relish.  

Hope you enjoy this recipe as much as our family has for generations.  

1 comment:

  1. This sounds so yummy! Are you no longer blogging? I found your comment about my garden in my spam folder. Wanted to hop over and say 'hi'!
    hugs,
    Jann

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