Recipe - Green Tomato Pickle

3 cup Slacked Lime; *see notes
2 ga Water
7 pound Green Tomatoes; Unpeeled,
thinly cut or sliced up
5 pound Sugar; divided
2 qt Vinegar
3 teaspoon Whole Cloves
2 teaspoon Allspice
2 teaspoon Celery Seed
2 Stick Cinnamon; halved
1 teaspoon Powdered Mace
1 teaspoon Ground Ginger

Mix lime and water; soak tomatoes in lime water for 24 hours. Put tomatoes
in fresh cold water for 24 hours. Put tomatoes in fresh cold water for 4
hours changing water every hour. Drain well. Place 3 One half pounds sugar and
vinegar in kettle. Make 4 small cloth bags for spices; divide spices among
bags. Bring syrup to boil (with bags in it) and pour over drained tomatoes.
Let stand overnight. (A stone crock is the thing to use.)

Next morning, boil 1 hour. Take some of the hot syrup, and 1 One half pounds
sugar and bring to boiling point, pour over pickle and let stand 24 hours.
The next morning heat the pickle, put in jars and seal.

Makes 8 pints

Source: "Mountain Measures" Junior League of Charleston, WV ed. 1974

NOTES : *Slacked lime from drugstore.

Recipe by: Mrs. Robert W. Lawson, Jr. Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #678 by
Bill Spalding billspa@icanect.net on Jul 19, 1997