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Grandma Pearl’s Green Tomato Pickles

Ingredients

  • 2 gallons green tomatoes
  • ½ gallon onions
  • 6 cups sugar
  • 2 quarts vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon black pepper
  • 1 tablespoon salt

Original notebook directions

  1. Slice tomatoes and onions thin.
  2. Add all ingredients to a pot and boil for 20 minutes.
  3. Put in pint jars and seal.

Family and notebook notes

Notebook yield: 12 pints.

Family recollection: These green tomato pickles were eaten and remembered as amazing.

The notebook's direction to fill jars and seal does not specify a tested processing method. For safe shelf-stable preservation, use a currently tested canning procedure; this is an archival transcription.

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