TOMATO FIGS.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXXI, Issue 50, 27 June 1905, Page 2

TOMATO FIGS .

Allow 1 lb of , coffee-sugar to every pound of tomatoes. Thb yellow plum ton>atoes, or the very small and perfectly smooth red ones are preferred for this method of preserving. Put the sugar on the stove with just enough water tormelt it. Aseoon as it boils, put the tomatoes in whole with the skins 0n..; Draw the kettle back where it will simmer gently. Cook until transparent, about two hours. Skim them out carefully, and drain off all the j syrup. Spread them on platters to dry, iv the sun, if possible. Sprinkle a little sugar over them \ehile drying, and the next day turn them, and sprinkle again with, sugar. Do so for two or three days. When sufficiently dry,- pack in. boxes. Seven pounds of tomatoes will make two quarts of •figs.; ; '" : ■.."■■ '- .■■ ' ' ,_• '. " '- ' ",• -•]