Lazy Day Tomato Ketchup
- 30 -35 fully ripe tomatoes, any type
- 2 large white onions, sliced
- 2 12 cups cider vinegar
- 4 teaspoons dry mustard
- 1 12 teaspoons allspice
- 1 12 teaspoons cloves
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 2 teaspoons white pepper
- 2 teaspoons celery seeds
- 34-1 cup brown sugar
- Heat a large stockpot with boiling water.
- Add 8 to 10 tomatoes to the pot.
- When the skins start to wrinkle, remove with slotted spoon to a sink of ice water.
- Repeat until all tomatoes have been blanched.
- Remove skins & stem end of each tomato.
- Put in a large pot and mash down or cut in pieces.
- To freeze and prepare later:.
- Place in large freezer bags and mark.
- To prepare, just thaw and add the following ingredients below.
- To prepare fresh, add white onions to mashed tomatoes in a large pot.
- Add all of the spices and heat on low.
- Stir with a wooden spoon.
- When simmering, add brown sugar.
- Stir until mixed and taste.
- Add more sugar if not sweet enough.
- Note: You may use liquid sweetner sugar substitute.
- Add 1 cup water if you use liquid sweetner.
- Cool down.
- Put tomato mixture in blender in small amounts.
- Puree.
- (Do not try to blend hot mixture).
- Heat half pint sterilized jars in water in oven on low heat.
- Heat seals.
- Bring pureed mixture to a low simmer, do not burn.
- Place in half pint jars or pint jars.
- With a clean damp cloth wipe rim of jar, seal and tighten with ring.
- Hot water bath for 10 minutes.
- Note: I have sterilized bottles and poured in bottles and dipped bottle corks in paraffin before sealing.
- Note: If you want a few half pints for chili sauce, add 1 tblsp horseradish and 2 drops tabasco sauce or hot sauce to each half pint, stir before sealing.
- Do not add to the whole batch.
fully ripe tomatoes, white onions, cider vinegar, dry mustard, allspice, cloves, ground ginger, white pepper, celery seeds, brown sugar
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/lazy-day-tomato-ketchup-180263 (may not work)