Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

3 lb Sugar 1 sm Pile (size of a quarter)
2 pt Vinegar -EACH, ground cloves,
8 lb Green tomatoes -cinnamon,

allspice, ginger, mustard, and celery seeds

Cut the tomatoes into wedges, removing the hard stem end and core if
necessary. Put 3 cups of pickling lime in enough ice water to soak the
tomoates in from morning to morning. Pour off the water and add clear
water twice in 5 hours. Then drain. Before you go to bed, make your
syrup from the above ingredients and bring it to a boil. Dump it
into the pot containing the drained tomatoes, cover it and go
straight to bed. The next morning, put pot and all on the stove and
at boil for 30 40 minutes. Spoon out into jars and seal while they
are hot. Verta Mae said: "This is the typcial tomato pickle we've
all been eatin gin the South since the Lord made a Rebel. They are
so crispy."

Origin: Adapted from White Trash. Shared by: Sharon Stevens, April/95.

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