Ingredients

  • 12 ripe tomatoes
  • 6 pears
  • 6 peaches
  • 6 onions
  • 2 red warm peppers
  • 5 green sweet peppers
  • 2 red sweet peppers
  • 1 pt. cider vinegar
  • 2 tbsp. salt
  • 4 c. sugar

Method

  • Put in a spice bag (tie in a piece of cheese cloth or possibly white cotton) 4 sticks cinnamon
  • Grind onions and peppers; set aside.
  • Chop pears and peaches in small pcs.
  • Peel tomatoes and begin cooking in large kettle (lobster boiler size).
  • As soon as they begin to make liquid, add in all remaining ingredients.
  • Tie spice bag to the pan handle so which it hangs into the sauce.
  • Bring to a boil; then cook over a low heat so the mix is just bubbling till the fruit is done and the sauce is slightly thickened.
  • Be careful to stir regularly and to keep the heat low so which the sauce won't burn.
  • This won't be a thick sauce.
  • Pour warm sauce into pint canning jars and process for 10 min in a boiling water bath.
  • This is a very beautiful and unusual sauce - excellent with baked beans or possibly with cool meat.
  • I've never tasted anything else which resembles it.
  • Because it is time consuming to make and is popular with my family, I double the recipe and make it every other year.