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Fire Balls (Hot Cherry Tomatoes)

Source of Recipe

Di Neal (recipezaar)


Recipe Introduction

Original poster's note: This recipe is from Maggie Hennessey's book A taste of West Virgina: A book of favorite recipes. So many people were requesting recipes for canning cherry tomatoes that when I found this I wanted to share it. Let me know how it comes out-I think it looks very tasty. Buny's note: this one had several rave reviews -- and something about not being able to keep up with demand :)

List of Ingredients

14 lb. small green cherry tomatoes
4 cloves garlic
4 stalks celery
4 hot red chile peppers
4 heads dill
1 quart water
1/2 cup pickling salt
2 quarts white vinegar



Recipe

1. Pack 3 1/2 pounds of cherry tomatoes in each of the clean, hot jars.
2. To each quart jar add a clove of garlic, a celery stalk, a hot red pepper, and a head of dill.
3. Combine water, pickling salt and vinegar.
4. Boil.
5. Fill jars to 1/2 inch head space from top.
6. Process 10 minutes in boiling water bath.
7. Makes 4 quarts.