Tomato Catsup

Ingredients

• 1 peck tomatoes
• salt
• 1/2 pint onions, chopped
• 1/4 ounce mace
• 1 tablespoon black pepper, whole

Instructions

1. Gather a peck of tomatos, pick out the stems, and wash them.
2. Put them on the fire without water, sprinkle on a few spoonsful of salt, and let them boil steadily an hour, stirring them frequently.
3. Strain them through a colander, and then through a sieve.
4. Put the liquid on the fire with half a pint of chopped onions and half a quarter of an ounce of mace broke into small pieces. If it is not sufficiently salt, add a little more.
5. Add one table-spoonful of whole black pepper.
6. Boil all together until there is just enough to fill two bottles, then cork it tight.
7. Make it in August, in dry weather.