Rinse the zucchini or cucumber, remove the skin and cut into finger-length strips.
Rinse green tomatoes (those that, because it is too late in the year, can no longer ripen), cut out the stalk, pierce all around with a sewing needle.
Weigh the 1st day greens, put them in a stoneware pot. For 1 kg add: 300 cc white wine vinegar, 200 cc red or white wine, 500 g brown sugar, 1 cinnamon stick, 5 peppercorns, 1 to 2 bay leaves, 3 cloves, 1 finger-sized piece of ginger, zest of one lemon, 2 tbsp yellow mustard powder, boil vinegar, wine and sugar, add bay leaves, cinnamon, pepper, cloves. Remove the peel from the ginger and add it.
Cut the lemon skin into small strips and add. Bring to a simmer for a few minutes, then pour over the fruit. (They should be completely covered).
Add a little wine if necessary.
2nd day Pour off juice, let it boil, simmer for 5 min, let it cool down, pour it over the greens again.
Day 3 Put greens and juice in a wide pot. Let simmer until pieces are slightly glazed. They have to do but still show “bite”. For the tomatoes, bubble until the skin bursts. Then layer the pieces in jars rinsed with hot tap water. Add the mustard powder to the juice and bubble it to syrup consistency. Let this syrup cool