Tomato Catsup

Total Time: 5 hrs Preparation Time: 2 hrs Cook Time: 3 hrs

Ingredients

• 1 gallon tomato juice
• 1 pint vinegar
• 2 tablespoons salt
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon red pepper
• 1 teaspoon ground mustard
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 5 cloves
• 5 whole allspice
• 1/2 cup cornstarch

Recipe

• 1 take 1/2 bushel tomatoes cut up in small pieces.
• 2 cook strain
• 3 and to each gallon juice add 1 pint vinegar.
• 4 2 tablespoons salt.
• 5 1 small cup sugar.
• 6 1 level teasppon red pepper
• 7 1 heaping teaspoon ground mustard
• 8 cinnamon cloves and allspice
• 9 tie spices in cloth
• 10 remove when done
• 11 cooking 2 hours
• 12 then add 1/2 cup cornstarch(this is where i think the recipe gets hinky , i think its 2 much cornstarch for each gallon
• 13 and then cook 15 minutes more
• 14 bottle and seal.