Tomato Catsup

Ingredients

• 1 peck tomatoes
• few spoonsful salt
• 0.5 pint onions, chopped
• 0.25 ounce mace
• 1 tablespoon black pepper, whole

Instructions

1. Gather a peck of tomatoes and remove the stems. Wash them thoroughly. Place the tomatoes on the fire without water and sprinkle on a few spoonsful of salt. Let them boil steadily for an hour, stirring frequently.
2. Strain the cooked tomatoes through a colander, then through a sieve to remove solids. Return the liquid to the fire and add half a pint of chopped onions, half a quarter of an ounce of mace broken into small pieces, and one tablespoon of whole black pepper. Add more salt if needed to taste.
3. Boil all together until the mixture is reduced enough to fill two bottles. Cork tightly. Make this in August, in dry weather.