Helen Leatherwood'S Pear Relish - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 gal. pears
1/2 gal. onions
14 green peppers
4 hot green peppers
1 c. pimento
2 c. salt
2 qt. cider vinegar
4 c. sugar
4 Tbsp. turmeric
4 Tbsp. whole mustard seed
1 Tbsp. celery seed (optional)
1 Tbsp. garlic powder (optional)

Preparation

Put pears, onions, peppers and pimento through a grinder on medium setting.
Sprinkle salt over the ground mixture.
Soak overnight (no water).
Next morning, pour all in a colander. Rinse all salt out. In a large container, put vinegar, sugar, turmeric and mustard seed.
Bring to a boil and let boil 5 minutes.
Add all ground ingredients, stirring constantly.
Return to boil.
Add celery seed and garlic powder, if desired.
Let boil another 1/2 hour.
Jar while hot and seal.