Chow-Chow - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1 peck green tomatoes (12.5 lb.)
    10 to 12 medium sized onions
    6 to 8 red sweet peppers
    1/2 c. prepared horseradish
    3 sticks cinnamon
    1 Tbsp. celery seed
    1/2 pt. vinegar
    3 to 4 c. sugar
    1 small head green cabbage
    6 to 8 green sweet peppers
    1/2 c. salt
    1 Tbsp. whole cloves
    1 Tbsp. white mustard seed
    1 tsp. ground ginger
    1/2 pt. water
Preparation
    Slice tomatoes and peppers; add salt and let sit overnight. Drain, but do not wash.
    Grind all these ingredients; put in a kettle with all other ingredients except sugar.
    The juice should just cover the top.
    Add the sugar to taste.
    Simmer about 5 minutes after the mixture comes to a boil.
    Seal in prepared sterile jars.
    This was my mother's recipe.

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