Maxine's Recipe ~ Green Tomato Mincemeat

Green Tomato Mince Meat

8  C chopped green tomatoes

1-1½  C cider (appox)

8  C apples chopped unpeeled 

1½  lb raisins - about 4½  C (not ground)

1  lb ch. dates (optional)

2  C honey

1⅓  C cider vinegar

2  T gr. cinnamon

2  t gr. cloves

1  t gr. allspice

1  t gr. ginger

¼  t pepper (not Maxine)

2  T grated orange peel 

Drain chopped tomatoes ~ 15 min & replace the juice with same amount of cider.

Combine everything in alum. pot [printed recipe above suggests a NON aluminum pot] - simmer till thick ~ approx 2 hrs

Wash 10 pint jars - 5 qts

Process in boiling water ~ 15 min pints ~ 20 min quarts [printed newspaper recipe above has additional instructions]

(PS:  You can add butter if you want when you make a pie, but NOT before canning mixture.)

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