The weather has turned wet and cold in New Hampshire and the tomatoes on the vine won’t be ripening. Yesterday I pulled all the tomato plants and gathered about a dozen green tomatoes to make preserves. Yes, green tomato preserves. A little bit tart. A little bit sweet. A little bit bitter. And a whole lot delicious.
I cut the tomatoes up into chunky pieces, seeds and skin included,
and added enough sugar and lemon juice to suit my taste.
It all cooks for an hour and a half or so until thickened. I never remove the seeds as most recipes call for. The smaller seeds are tasteless and the larger ones add a bit of bitterness that I like.
My green tomatoes made 7 half-pints of preserves. Six are pictured here and one jar is in the refrigerator, half eaten on toast at breakfast this morning.
Will surely try that once we have the tomatoes again. Just pulled out the old dried ones the other day. Thank you for sharing.
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Thanks. This recipe is not the taste appreciated by everyone but I do love it…
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That looks good!
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Best on a toasted English muffin… 😊
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I use an old time recipe to make green tomato mincemeat for Christmas pies.
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I think I must get that recipe from you!
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YUM!!! 🙂 You might consider frying some of those green ones too. Delicious.
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You’re right. I’ll never tire of good fried green tomatoes!
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One of my favorite dishes 🙂
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You certainly know how to put a garden to bed. Looks delicious. 🙂
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I think my siblings know what they’re going to get for Christmas…
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I’ve never tried that, Annie. We do have green tomatoes on the vine, and our weather tends to be similar, so maybe…
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I think you should try it. There are lots of good recipes out there and they’re all very simple.
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We do not have many fruits left by the time we pull the plants up, and almost all of those few remaining fruit ripen on the windowsill. The funny thing is that I actually like a few green tomatoes for pickling. Every few years or so, we get enough that do not ripen. I feel that pickling them just because I can is cheating if I do not give them a chance to ripen first.
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Never pickled a green tomato but it sounds tasty.
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They are rather simple. I mean, they do not get much seasoning added like cucumbers or other milder pickles get.
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💖💖💖
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Thanks!
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