Uses For Green Tomatoes

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17953, 3 December 1932, Page 10

Uses For Green Tomatoes

QUEEN tomatoes as a vegetable are appreciated done in the following American way: Drop the amount needed into boiling water, when they will peel easily without breaking. Got small ones is possible. Peel and place them in a pan over a steady heat, add a pieeo of butter aud a very little water, season with salt and pepper and a pinch of sugar. If the tomatoes are not very small they should be halved before placing in the pot. Let all simmer slowly, and when cooked serve with brown breadcrumbs sprinkled over them. Green Tomato Marmalade. Take equal weights of green tomatoes and lemons gad half their weight of preserving sugar. Wash and wipe the fruit. Cut the tomatoes iu slices and romovo the larger pips if possible. Cut the thin rind of the lemon and remove the pith and pips. Slice the fruit. Put all the fruit and lemon rind into n pan together, and coyer with the sugar. Leave it for from 24 to 48 hours, turning it over once or twice with a wooden spoon. Boil all together in a preserving pan until the syrup will set. A Good Pickle. , Take 21b. of green tomatoes and lib. of onions peeled, and slice both thinly. Arrange in layers in a jar and sprinklo each layer with the following mixture: Four tnblespoonsfuls of sugar, two tablespoonfuls of salt, one tcaspoqnful of ground ginger, one small teaspoouful of cayenne popper, 12 cloves, loz. mustard seeds. Pour vinegar on to cover, tic over with paper, and bake in a slow oven for three hours.

Green Tomato Chutney. Here is an excellent recipe for green tomatoes which may not ripen. You need 2£lbs. green tomatoes, Bibs apples, l|lb. brown sugar, Jib. sultanas, l£lbs. onions, 3 pints vinegar, 1 tabicspoonful salt, i teaspoonful cayenne, loz. mustard seed, 2ozs. lump ginger. Peel and remove core of apples and chop finely. Peel and finely chop the onions. Slice the tomatoes and put into a pan with a little of the vinegar and cook until soft; then pass these through, a sieve. Put into a pan and add the chopped apples and onions, together with the sultanas, sugar, cayenne, salt,

and rest of vinegar. Tie the mustard seeds and ginger in a muslin bag and add. Bring to the boil and boil for MO minutes, liemove muslin bag, and bottle.