Green Tomato Chow Chow

Ingredients

2 cups water
10 pounds green tomatoes washed
2 red peppers
2 orange peppers
2 yellow peppers
2 green peppers
5 pounds onions
4 cups white vinegar
5 1/2 cups white sugar
3 tsps pickling spice
cheese cloth with white thread to tie it
2 tsps mustard
1/2 cup corn starch
1 tsp turmeric
1 cup coarse salt

Instructions

Take all the vegetables, cutting tomatoes into 6 pieces, onions in rings, peppers in chunks,coarse salt. Let sit on the stove all night, you might add zucchini or any vegetable you wish. Next morning take handfuls of this and rinse well. Put in a pot, add cold water, vinegar and sugar turn up to 7 and stir frequently. Simmer 2.5 hours on low. Then is a cup make a paste from corn starch and spices and vinegar, enough to pour into pot. Let it thicken for about a half hour and while it's hot put it in the bottles and seal well. Makes 12 medium bottles.