Lost family recipe for Chow-Chow (Polish style)

Hello to all, I have signed on looking for a family receipe for Chow-Chow. My Dear Father and his family passed along the receipe, I have misplaced. I remember califlower, white onions, beans perhaps in a mustard sauce. Wonder if anyone can help me. My Dads family lived in Shennandoah, Pennsylvania.

Thank You

Are you sure you're on the right forum?
You can find info about Polish food here. Chow chow is not it.

Its sort of like a relish, lots of people made it where I grew up (I have no idea the origins of it...) but people would eat it on saltine crackers or every so often, a hot dog. I've not heard of anyone making it other than in pretty rural areas. Perhaps try a search for Appalachian recipes? I'm not sure the right spelling, either.

Good luck.

John P.

Thank You for your reply. Definitely Polish receipe. Coal Mining regions of PA. There are Southern and Cajun varieties as well. Basically, all fresh vegtables cooked and put into canning jars.

Hi,

You might want to try a Pennsylvania Dutch cookbook. That is where I see most of the recipes for chow chow. They serve it in all the restaurants in the Lancaster area.

There is a Polish/Eastern European version of Chow Chow. It uses more dill and less sugar. I'm slovak and I'm from central PA. Our family made this version of Chow Chow which is different from the southern variety. If I can find the recipe I'll post it.

armadillopeppers.com/uploads/CHOW-CHOW_RELISH_Recipe.pdf

Try this link out. I was looking for the same recipe just recently. This is a Cajun Favorite where I am from, just 20 miles from the Louisiana state line. My Papa Francis made this in his kitchen and we all loved it. I never got all the great recipes from him before he passed on. But this is the closest I've found to his. This chow chow is great on EVERYTHING, put it in soups, stews gumbo, on eggs, I could go on and on. It's great to make up a large batch and can it or give the jars as gifts. Good luck with your batch. Mine came out great.

Just found a recipe for a larger version. the one I posted first makes four pint jars. This one should make a few quarts size jars. I encourage giving some of this to family and friends as gifts or in gift baskets around Christmas time this year.

Summer or Winter Chow Chow

1 gal. purple onions
1 gal. green tomatoes (summer or winter)
1 gal. large bunch celery
1 gal. cucumber (summer or winter)
1 gal. ground artichoke hearts
1 gal. chopped cabbage
1 sweet red pepper

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Nice job with the website. Your Hunters Stew recipe:


I don't know about all that beef and pork in there. Also, I never saw a recipe for a Hunters Stew with a breakfast sausage in it.

I do use mushrooms in mine, though. It's supposed to be a "hunters" stew, and they would put wild mushrooms in it, found in a forest.

Thanks. That is right! I will look it over and modify it :)

Pistachio77
Any reason (other than scam) why you posted your "Hope everyone is doing well" message above 10 times or more onto PF?

That's because the guy has some manners; unlike you, TheOther.

I would like people add polish recipes to my website or share tips, so I wanted as many people to know about it as possible. That is why I posted message in few forums.

What is the point to built it for myself.
Btw- I modified the recipe- i did make no sense with breakfast sausage. I got it from a friend but she is third generation polish so I guess it got a bit modified, but tasted good when I tried at ther house.

Are you for real? The mods shifted most of Pistachio77 posts to Off Topic. Guess why, mister Dice...

For sure TheOther is not for real. And Pistachio is a girl...well mannered. Polish way!

I love Pistachios!

I saw that, but Dice didn't ... :)


Sorry to disappoint you, but I'm not Polish. <g>


77 of them?

I figured...

Then why do you write "Polish way", lady? Aaaah well, never mind...

However many are in a package. The more the better.

Including the pesticides and the occasional salmonella contamination? <g>

I thought a Chow was a kind of dog.....I know the Chinese eat em but not the Poles surely.....or is it something else....?

images.google.com/images?q=chow+chow

Yummy

We gotta get our vitamins from somewhere.

that is what they call garden mix....just type in chowchow recipes and it will come up

dear stickybeak my motherr in law use to make chow-choww she would use onions green peppers red peppers yellowpeppers and she would chop theom all up she would add pickle spices i think she left it sit over night too she also add sugar to make alittle sweet then she would boil it the nest day then put into sterile jars and seals thats allthere is too it i hope this will help by the wasy i'm from pa to a small coal mining town if you would i will give you my email address and you can let me know how this turns out for my email is barbglendenning@ymail.com

Maybe bake them in pastry, hence the Polish word 'pies'.

Polonia's culłinary 'faux amis' (false friends) include city chicken, booyah and chow-chow. As some PF-ers have correctly noted, these are not Polish concoctions, but the old bread-seeking immirgants to the USA were exposed to them early on, adopted them to such an extent that many of their descendats became convinced they were 100% Polish. An example from my corner of the woods (SE Michigan) is city chicken (chunks or pork and veal, on a wooden skewer, breaded, fried and then baked -- very ncie BTW). It has been served at PolAm weddings for as far as anyone can remember and many PolAms regard it as something par excellence Polish. Know of any other examples?

Huh ... Chow Chow was what MY Polish Parents & Grandparents ate. What Poland are you talking about z ? Are there any REAL Poloks here who can give us a good Chow Chow Recipe?

As Polonius mentioned, you might want to ask around locally. Down south (US), we eat it with beans. I haven't seen it in Poland.