Red Tomato Ketchup
- Questions 1
Ready In: 4 hrs
Yields: 7 1/2quart jars
Ingredients
- 6 quarts basket ripe tomatoes
- 4 onions
- 8 celery ribs
- 4 apples
- 1 red pepper
- 1 green pepper
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons pickling spices, wrapped in cheesecloth
- 2 cups vinegar
- 3⁄4 cup white sugar
- 3⁄4 cup brown sugar
Directions
- Blanch and peel tomatoes.
- Cut them in large chunks.
- Peel onions and apples.
- In processor pulse onions, celery, apples and peppers; do not pulverize them--leave them in approx 1/2-inch cubes.
- In large saucepan, stir everything together except the sugars.
- Cook medium low heat for 1 hour stirring now and then.
- Add sugars and continue cooking another 2 hours stirring now and then.
- Do not cover while cooking your ketchup!
- Pour into sterilized jars; wipe rim.
- Cover to seal.
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