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Show Your Menu-Planning Made Easy With Home-Canned Tomatoes Menu-planning a chore! When in doubt about what to serve your family, remember that pood old stand-by, home-canned tomatoes. They re delicious prepared a number of ways; and amonjr the countless tempting menu-sparkcra are tomatoes with okra, tomato sauces and soups, tomato rarebits, vegetable mixture, delicately flavored tomato preserves, and those two faithfuls of the American table, tomato ketchup ' and chili caucc. The distinctive flavor of chili sauce adds a wonderful tang to a variety of other foods s It may be combined with mayonnaise for a delicious Jiussian dressing; mixed with horseradish for a racy seafood cocktail; sprr ad on hamburgers; or lend zest to a meal in countless other ways. Ai you may vary the amount cf spices in your chili sauce to achieve a tiu y individual taste. Here's a iccipe for chili sauce, taken from the Hall lilue Book, which you may like to try: 1 gallon tomatoea 1 tablespoon mustard seed Z cups chopped onions 1 tablespoon celery seed i cups chopped red sweet peppers 3 tablespoons rriy .-d spices 1 pod hot pepper 214 cups vinegar 1 cup sugar 3 tablespoons salt Wash and drain, vegetables. Scald, core, peel and chop red-ripe toma. toes, reel onions; remove seed from peppers; chop and measure. Mix all ingredients except spices and vinegar, lloil 45 minutes. Add spices (tied in lag). Uoil until very thick, then add vinegar and boil until as thick as wanted. (Taste; add more seasoning and sugar if wanted ) I'our, boiling hot, Into Hall Jars; seal at once. Note: If preferred, M of the sweet peppers may be green. And, isn't it wonderful to know that the tomatoes you put up yourself are real budget-stretchers? For example, the tomato juice you make of tomatoes grown in your own garden costs you only about ff a quart. If you would like to add to your own collection of favorite home-canning recipes, you may be interested to know that the Hall Jilue Hook on canning and reeling with simplified methods, yields, timetables and over 800 home-canning recipes is made available to you by sendinz ZM.ln coin to Ball lilue.lTooJc, Dept. PB, Mur.;i, Indiana. |