Great Aunt Vera's Sweet Mustard Pickle

Total Time: 37 hrs Preparation Time: 36 hrs Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 2 3/4 kg onions (4.4 lb)
• 1 large cauliflower
• green tomato
• runner beans
• 2 cucumbers
• 2 1/3 kg sugar (4.3 lb)
• 3 1/2 bottles of table vinegar (not draught vinegar, 3 x 34 oz bottles)
• 2 tablespoons salt
• 1 cup flour
• 3 tablespoons mustard
• 28 1/2 g turmeric (1 oz)
• 2 tablespoons curry

Recipe

• 1 cut up vegetables, add the salt, cover with cold water and leave to stand overnight.
• 2 pour off the liquid next morning, put vegetables in to big pan (or several as necessary) and cover with vinegar.
• 3 add sugar and cook until soft.
• 4 mix the flour, mustard, turmeric, curry and mix to a smooth paste with some cold vinegar.
• 5 remove main mixture from heat and add paste in stages very carefully to the main mixture (too much too quick and it will become lumpy) stir well and boil for 5 minutes.
• 6 bottle in screw-top jars.
• 7 refrigerated, this stuff keeps for months and months.
• 8 note: this makes at least 19 large jars, so i'd highly recommend doing a 1/2 or 1/4 recipe first!