HUNGARIAN GREEN TOMATO RELISH
Ingredients:
10 lb. green tomatoes
1 head cauliflower or more
5 lb. peeled yellow or white onions
5 green bell peppers
5 red peppers
1 cup pickling salt (no iodine)
Brine:
7 cups vinegar (white is best)
1 whole box mixed pickling spices
1 box whole mustard seed
5 cups sugar
Slice thinly only the tomatoes, onions and cauliflower. Place the
cut up vegetables in a large plastic bin. Sprinkle 1 cup of salt over
vegetables and let it sit overnight.
Drain well and rinse off salt with water. Remove the seeds from the
red and green peppers and cut up into small pieces.
Add the rinsed off vegetables and place in large kettle or pot along
with the vinegar, mustard seeds. Place the mixed pickling spices in
a bag or cloth to keep them together so they can be fished out later.
Mustard seeds remain in the relish.
Cook until vegetable are soft, not mushy!
Remove mixed spice bag and add 5 cups of sugar. Cook ten more
minutes until sugar is melted.
Bottle in sterilized canning jars.
B-man 