V-8 Vegetable Juice - cooking recipe

Ingredients

10 qt. tomatoes
1/2 c. salt
1 hot pepper (optional)
1 1/2 c. celery
5 large onions
4 sweet peppers
5 c. water
1/2 c. vinegar
1 c. sugar

Preparation

Cook tomatoes
in their own juice and run through sieve to remove
peel
and
seeds.
Cook together the celery, onions and peppers in the 5 cups water until tender, then run through blender.
Add
salt,
vinegar,
sugar,
vegetable
mixture
to tomatoes and
mix
well.
Bring to a rolling boil and put into sterilized jars and seal while hot.
Yields 9 quarts.