Sunday, October 30, 2011

What to do with Green Tomatoes?


Green Tomatoes, a photo by zombie amelia on Flickr.
This was my question. The answer was, make hot green tomato jam!

I didn't have many green tomatoes, so this is a tiny batch, but maybe this is what you also have in your yard on your tomato plants.

2 cups tomato pulp (I used the food processor to pulp them)
1 1/4 cups sugar
2 T lemon juice
2.5 t calcium water
2.5 t pectin (Pomona's Pectin, hence the calcium water)
1 T Sambal Oelek (Fresh ground chili paste)

Mix pectin with sugar and set aside. Prepare your jamming stuff (this made 2 1/2 pint jars and 2 1/4 pint jars)

Cook tomato pulp and lemon juice until boiling (you want it to break down a little first) then reduce heat and add chili paste and calcium water. Bring mixture back to a boil and add pectin/sugar, stir vigorously while cooking until the pectin/sugar dissolves. Return to boil one last time, then remove from heat.

Fill jars to 1/4" from top, process in hot water for 10 minutes.

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