Thanks for the help and translation. I tried google translator before coming to gp, but that did not answer the question, it just asked "did you mean," ........? I did not know what it meant, so here I'm. Thank goodness there are helpful people here. Thanks again.

Zeedmsn, Curious as where you bought the seeds as the pack seem to be authentic Chinese? As far as the translation, it'll cost you a few seeds for next year :D, he he... The top of the pic, right hand side of the seed pack is the brand name, Wu Feng You (first 3 characters)followed by the description "green bitter melon". The right hand side of the pic, bottom of the seed pack says "Hybridized by the bitter melon agriculture organization specialist of Wu Shan" The bottom of the pic, left hand side of the pack: Big Fruit, Productive, and if you eat it will protect your health. Traditional Chinese will say that the bitter melon will reduce your inside heat (opposite of chili pepper) and help remove poisons from your body. Good luck Zeedman, hope our crazy WI weather this year cooperates. John

It probably does mean three bunches of celery, but they were probably a lot smaller. Three trimmed bunches, like they put in packages at Trader Joe's, would be more like it. Or about one and a half large bunches. There is a U.S. commercial standard that a bushel of tomatoes weighs 53 lbs. One U.S. bushel equals four pecks. That would give you around 13.25 lbs. of tomatoes. I'm sure your great-grandmother didn't adhere to commerical standards however. Is it a peck piled above the brim or up to the brim? The answer is, it doesn't matter. It's a general amount, like "this many". Make it to suit yourself. It'll be fine, a tomato more or less. A bag would be a coarse cloth bag, and would be tied to a hook to get it out of the way and let it drain. Or tied to the shaft of a heavy wooden spoon, and hung inside a stockpot. The cloth also keeps the critters out. Those probably aren't concerns, so a colander or strainer would work fine, perhaps with some cans raising the handles above the basin you're draining into. If the holes are big, line the colander with cheesecloth. Or spread out a large piece or two (two if it's thin or has big holes) of cheesecloth, put the tomatoes in the middle, gather up the edges and tie with string, and you have a bag. The vinegar, if it was boughten, would be cider or white, but it might be whatever grew from old wine at home. My tendency on the first time doing the recipe, would be to use distilled white vinegar because it's anonymous. See what it tastes like, and do it to suit yourself next time. A food grinder is a common old-time kitchen tool, which is still used by many. A meat grinder with a crank. If you don't have one you can mince by hand, or use the knife on a food processor very delicately, or use a grater or FP grater disk. It's basically use whatever the easiest means you have for cutting them up really small without making them into puree. Since it says to grind the horseraddish, and it's going in a pickle, I assume that means peeled and chunked horseraddish root, not prepared mince horseraddish in vinegar that comes in a bottle in the deli case. :) Cut small x's in the skin at blossom ends of the tomatoes before you scald them and they'll be easier to peel. It should keep a good long while in the fridge. If you want to can it, however, check with some canning experts and make sure you do it safely. Your recipe is very similar to many others, so there might be a version that is known to be safe for canning.

I think she's saying she wants to translate text she has in image form but not in text form. That's a two step process - 1) Having an image with text on it. 2) Having software to do the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) processing. Try looking at this link - apparently Google Docs can process image files (Jpg, etc) and pdf files. You need to present the software an image - either from a photo (hence, using a smartphone/tablet but also feasible with a camera) or a scanner made one of the text in question. Then, when the text has been recognized and processed into a text file, that you can copy/paste to Google Translate or any of the others. How to OCR docs