Fruit Chili Sauce
Comments: Excellent on pot roast and hamburgers.
Servings: Approximately 32 cups [8 L]
  • 30 large ripe tomatoes
  • 4 tart apples
  • 6 pears
  • 8 peaches
  • 6 medium onions
  • 2 sweet green peppers
  • 2 sweet red peppers
  • 2 medium heads celery
  • 6 cups [1.2 kilos] white sugar
  • 2 tablespoons [30 mL] salt
  • 1 cups [1 L] cider vinegar
  • 1/2 cup [125 mL] whole mixed spices, tied into a thin muslin bag
  • Approximately 16 [2-cup / 500-mL] hot sterilized jars
  • Rinse and chop tomatoes.
  • Peel, core and chop tart apples and pears, peel and stone peaches, remove membranes, seed and chop sweet green and red peppers, and chop celery.
  • Transfer all fruit and vegetable pieces into a large casserole.
  • Pour in sugar, salt, cider vinegar and add whole mixed spices bag.
  • Bring to a boil and leave mixture to simmer for approximately 3 hours, until thick.
  • Immediately transfer into hot sterilized jars; seal jars.
  • Leave to cool completely; screw jars if needed.
  • Keep refrigerated after opening.