Green Tomato Sweet Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 lb. tomatoes
cold water
alum
1 qt. vinegar
1 lb. sugar
cloves
cinnamon
nutmeg

Preparation

Slice tomatoes thin.
Sprinkle with salt.
Let remain 24 hours.
Rinse in cold water, then soak in alum water 2 to 3 hours (use alum the size of a partridge egg).
Rinse again.
Now weigh them and put in kettle of cold ginger water.
Let come to a boil. Add vinegar, sugar, cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg.
Boil only a few minutes.
Boil down syrup.