Sweet Pickle Relish

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Ingredients

  • 12 large cucumbers
  • 12 medium onions
  • 1 hot pepper
  • 8 sweet peppers
  • 2 red sweet peppers
  • ½ cup salt
  • 1 tsp mustard seed
  • 1 qt vinegar
  • 5 cups sugar

Directions

  1. Seed but don't peel, grind all vegetables.
  2. Let stand in ½ cup salt for 3 hours. Drain.
  3. Add 1 tsp mustard seed, 1 qt vinegar, 5 cups sugar and bring to a boil.
  4. Boil altogether ½ to 1 hour.

Timing: Let stand for 3 hours; Boil altogether 1/2 to 1 hour

Temperature: bring to a boil; Boil altogether

Equipment: vegetable grinder; container for three-hour salt rest; draining vessel; boiling pot

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