This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
Known to be good. 24 large ripe tomatoes. 6 green peppers.
4 large onions.
3 tablespoons salt.
6 teacups vinegar.
Chop the peppers and onions very fine. Peel the tomatoes and cut up very small Put all into a kettle and boil gently an hour. Keep in glass jars well sealed.
[End of the Eight Weeks.]
(Continued from page 166.) and I went behind a door to watch what she would do. Of course she would not touch them, only walked around the table and viewed them on both sides; nothing further took place that evening. I know the female mind is quick to act, but there was a problem that seemed too much for her, and took all night to consider. But it was all right next morning, for she took a stick and raked them into a gallon apple can, put in a small lump of concentrated lye, filled up with soap suds and let them stew for hours, though I had not a thing but old newspapers to use in the meantime, and every day of the eight weeks since, immediately after dinner that dear girl has put those towels through the same course of treatment, left them stewing all the afternoon and I suppose has washed them out besides, but does it so quickly I have never witnessed the operation; and now if it were not for the burned places the same three towels hanging there are white enough and good enough to begin another campaign.
 
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