OLD-FASHIONED KETCHUP (USING BLENDER)

48 medium tomatoes (about 8 lbs)                            3 tbsp salt
2 sweet red peppers                                                    1-1/2 tsp allspice
2 sweet green peppers                                                3 tsp dry mustard
4 onions                                                                      1-1/2 tsp cloves
3 cups white vinegar                                                   1-1/2 tsp cinnamon
3 cups sugar                                                                 1/2 tsp hot red pepper

Quarter tomatoes; remove stem ends. Add peppers, seeded and cut into strips, and onions. Blend at high speed 4 seconds; pour into large kettle. Repeat until all vegetables are blended.

Add vinegar sugar and spices (tied loosely in thin muslin bag). Simmer, uncovered, in slow oven (325*) or in electric saucepan until volume is reduced one half. remove spices.

Seal immediately in hot, sterilized jars.

Makes 5 pints.

(Time Saving Country Cookbook)

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