Tomato Conserve (tomato Relish Or Preserves) Recipe

Serves: 4
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lb.

Fresh tomatoes, skinned and

Quartered, or 4 1-lb cans of

Tomatoes with juice, chopped

Coarse

Apple cider vinegar

Sugar

Salt to taste

Freshly ground black pepper

To taste

Place all the ingredients in a heavy non-aluminum saucepan.
Cook slowly, stirring as necessary, until the mixture is so thick that it sticks to a spoon when you lift the spoon out of the pan, about 2 hours.
Taste for seasoning, add mor sugar, salt, and pepper, if needed.
Put up in sterilized jars.
This is a typical Southern relish.
Serve over green beans, black-eyed peas, butter beans, or cabbage.
DUPREE, Nathalie New Southern Cooking Alfred A.
Knopf, Inc.
New York Submitted by John Hartman Indianapolis, IN 16 June 1996