Title: Tomato Conserve (Tomato Relish or Preserves)
Categories: Relish Condiment Vegetable Southern
Yield: 4 Or 5 pints

4	lb	Fresh tomatoes, skinned and
		Quartered, or 4 1-lb cans of
		Tomatoes with juice, chopped
		Coarse
1	c	Apple cider vinegar
1/2	c	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

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