It’s hard to go wrong with a time-tested family original recipe like this one.

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Makes : 18 cups ( 3 - 1/2 L )

16 cups ( 4 L ) skinned , seed , chopped spread tomatoes and their juice ( 10 lb/5 kg , about 38 tomatoes)8 gravid onion plant , chopped5 red doorbell Piper nigrum , chopped4 still hunt celery , chopped1/4 chopped apple2 cups ( 500 mL ) white wine vinegar1 cup ( 250 mL ) granulated sugar1 cup ( 250 mL ) gently packed brown sugar3 tbsp ( 45 mL ) salt1 tbsp ( 15 mL ) whole table mustard germ , crushed1 - 1/2 tsp ( 7 mL ) ground cinnamon1 tsp ( 5 mL ) ground cloves1/2 tsp ( 2 mL ) ground gingerpinch chili pulverisation , or to try

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farm up in Sutton Ontario on Lake Simcoe in the 1960 ’s , my hubby , Gary McLaughlin experience what can only be described as an idyllic puerility . Summers in , on and about the lake ; winters playing ice hockey or snowmobiling next to open up water on the lake ; living in the family house build by big grandfather Martin McLaughlin on the river pass to the lake ; and the luxury of prolonged family cheeseparing - by … these were the simple pleasures for the first years of his life . And one of his earliest memory is of the large vegetable garden tend by his auntie Ruth and uncle Keith Dunn , who lived 2 streets over , not far from the fairground . Like many family in those days , specially the lucky ones with demesne , the Dunns fill their buttery with preserve and canned fruit and vegetable .

Ruth ’s daughter , Darla and Jane still live in and around Sutton and both think back the ritual of the garden peculiarly summertime and shine canning . Gary loved his aunt Ruth ’s Chili Sauce and when I started on this book , Darla lease out her mother ’s recipe boxful and order this recipe from her mother ’s hired hand . The ‘ recipe ’ was just a leaning of ingredients and who know where it originated , but Ruth made dozens of pint jars every fall and if you were favourable , you got one to hold dear .

I tried to stay true to the original recipe , so I only made changes that fetch the recipe in line with the style in this Koran . Gary say me that he thinks my chilli is selfsame to the one he remember from his young . Hard to go wrong with a time - essay original . If you wish your chili sauce with some heating system , append fresh or dried raging cayenne pepper ( crushed or chop ) or red-hot sauce to smack .

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1 . In a Maslin pan or canning kettle , combine tomatoes , onions , Madagascar pepper , cultivated celery , vinegar , granulated and brown sugar , salinity and mustard seeds . Bring to a boiling point over gamey warmth , put forward perpetually . come down heat and boil gently , stirring now and again for 1 - 1/2 hours until sauce begins to inspissate . impart cinnamon , cloves , powdered ginger and chili pulverization . Boil mildly , stir ofttimes for about 30 instant , or until thickened and sauce begins to mound on a spoon .

2 . Meanwhile , heat 9 1 - dry pint ( 2 cup/500 mL ) jars in stewing water   and whip the lids , weightlifter , funnel shape and tongs .

3 . Fill hot jar , leaving a 1/2 - column inch ( 1 atomic number 96 ) headspace . Run a thin nonmetallic utensil around the inside of the shock to set aside air to escape . Add more hot chili if necessary , to go forth a 1/2 - in ( 1 cm ) headspace . Wipe rims , top with flat lids and screw on metal ring . Return jars to the spicy water bath , go past up with hot water if necessary . play to a full rolling boil and appendage jars for 20 moment .

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4 . Remove canner lid and waitress 5 hour before remove jars to a towel or rack to cool off totally . delay seal , label and storehouse in a cool place for up to 1 year .

Use : Homemade chili con carne sauce complement egg any style and Roger Bacon or blimp meats like no other condiment . I peculiarly wish to have a pint on paw for the one or two occasions when we serve a huge country breakfast to guests who have come up out from the city for the weekend . Nothing communicates the simple country pleasures like the first meal of the day cooked in cast iron frying pan and grill , over a wood cooking stove . If you get beyond breakfast , this inheritance chili sauce also tops meatloaf and lends the hint of cinnamon and spice up to skillet dinner   and knock beef or chicken at Sunday dinner .

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Aunt Ruth’s Chili Sauce is as delicious as it looks! Use your home-canned tomatoes and cook up a batch of this to give as a homemade holiday gift. This recipe is excerpted fromPreserving: The Canning and Freezing Guide for All Seasons,printed by permission from Pat Crocker and HarperCollins CanadaPhoto/Illustration: Pat Crocker

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