V-8 Juice

V-8 Juice

This recipe comes from a mennonite friend who sends a quarterly newsletter.  Her latest letter describes her married daughters and daughters-in-law coming home and everyone in the kitchen canning.  At the end of day the girls all return to their home with the number of jars they think they can use.  They sure live in peace and harmony!

Ingredients:

1 heaping 10 quart kettle of tomatoes

1 onion

4 carrots

1/2 sweet red pepper

3 cloves garlic OR 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder

2 tablespoons salt

1/2 teaspoon lemon pepper seasoning

2 beets 

1 green pepper

3 stalks celery

1 tablespoon dried parsley

1/2 cup sugar (optional)

Directions:

Cook tomatoes in a large kettle and all other vegetables in second one as they take longer to cook.  Put through a food strainer.  Fill jars with juice leaving a space at top and process in hot water bath for 30 minutes.
Recipe of Rachael Burkholder.