Love-apple or Tomato Sauce

Ingredients:

• Five hundred tomatoes;
• two pounds of green ginger, ground fine;
• a pound and a half of garlic, ground fine;
• one pound of chilies, ground fine;
• one pound of chilies, ground fine; one pound of salt;
• three pounds of tamarinds;
• three quarts of vinegar.

Directions:

Steep the tamarinds for twelve hours in a quart of the vinegar; strain them through a sieve, rejecting the stones, and add the other two quarts of vinegar, all the ground condiments, and salt; break the tomatoes into the mixture, and boil the whole, stirring it all the time until it thickens; remove it from the fire, and when cold strain it carefully and bottle the liquid, which is the sauce.

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