Apple Pickle - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 peck ripe, firm apples
2 qt. vinegar
4 lb. sugar
1/2 oz. mace (unground)
1/2 oz. cloves (unground)
1/2 oz. allspice (unground)
1 tsp. mustard seed
few grains pepper
salt to taste

Preparation

Peel apples evenly and if perfect, leave them whole. Otherwise, cut in quarters.
Heat the vinegar and sugar until it boils; skim well.
Put the spices in a thin muslin bag and add to vinegar, then add all the apples.
Cook slowly until fruit is done.
Put in fruit jars.
Boil syrup down and pour over the fruit; seal while hot.