Preserve (Green Tomatoes)

Instructions

1. Take six pounds of unripe tomatoes, eight pounds of sugar to be boiled to a syrup, and four lemons, the rind very thinly cut and the juice squeezed.
2. First boil the tomatoes gently till quite tender, but don't let them break. In the water in which the fruit is boiled put about two or three dozen green peach leaves.
3. Take the tomatoes out and drain them.
4. Make the syrup from the eight pounds of sugar, and put the tomatoes into it cold.
5. Put in two or three pieces of ginger in a bag, and the lemon-peel. Let it boil slowly till quite clear, then take out the ginger.
6. Just before taking the preserve off the fire add about two tablespoonfuls of brandy.