Zippy pickled tomatoes!

This Recipe makes about 3 litres!

Ingredients

Enough Roma ( paste) tomatoes to fill three, one litre jars.

12 peeled cloves of garlic

2 TBS pickling salt

2 Litres of water

1 cup vinager

6 TBS vegetable oil

3 TBS sugar

3 fresh HOT banana Peppers

3 TBS mixed pickling spice

Wash and rinse three 1 litre mason jars..place in oven at 215 Degrees F for a minimum of 15 minutes..leave them in the hot oven until needed.

Wash , rinse and boil the jar lids and leave in simmering water until needed.

In a Pot, combine

water

vinager

oil

salt and sugar

Bring to a boil.

In the bottom of a hot jar..drop 4 cloves of garlic and 1 TBS pickling spice..pack in tomatoes..at the last..slip in a cleaned and seeded hot pepper point DOWN into jar..then fill to overflowing with boiling brine. Screw on lids good and tight and stand jar upside down on a folded towel until cool.

Do Next Jar.

Made this way the tomatoes retain their shape and colour and will be LOVLEY sliced or diced into a salad come winter!