NEW RECIPES

Southland Times, Issue 23444, 26 February 1938, Page 17

NEW RECIPES

When There Are Too Many Tomatoes USEFUL SAUCES The following ways of making tomato sauce will be useful to those whose crops are ripening too quickly, or if there is a surplus quantity of the fruit. PLAIN SAUCE Twelve large tomatoes, 2 large onions, loz salt, | teaspoon cayenne, 1 pint of vinegar. Peel and slice the onions thinly, place in a pan with the tomatoes and cook slowly until tender. Pass the pulp through a fine sieve, put into the pan again with the vinegar, salt and cayenne, and simmer gently for 10 minutes. Store in airtight bottles in a cool, dry place. MADE WITH APPLES Eight pounds tomatoes, 21b onions (sliced), 21b apples cored and sliced, not peeled, 21b brown sugar, Jib salt, 3 pints vinegar and J teaspoon cayenne. Put in muslin bag loz cloves, loz peppercorns and loz allspice. Boil this with all the ingredients, for three hours. Strain and bottle. This recipe has been used for many years and can be highly recommended. SAUCE WITH RAISINS Ten pounds tomatoes, 2Jlb apples. lJlb brown sugar, |lb salt, | packet of spice, lib raisins, 1| quarts vinegar (2 bottles), loz pepper, loz ginger, loz cayenne, loz cloves and 3 onions. Boil together for four hours, strain through a colander and bottle. FLAVOURED WITH GINGER Twelve pounds ripe tomatoes, 31b onions, 41b brown sugar, Jib salt, Joz chillies, joz mace, loz cloves, loz ground ginger, loz white pepper and 3 pints vinegar. Chop onions fine and slice tomatoes. Boil all ingredients together for 11 hours, then rub through a sieve or colander. Bring to the boil again and bottle while hot. This is an excellent, well-tested recipe. RED TOMATO JAM Six pounds ripe tomatoes, 61b sugar, 5 lemons, 1 breakfastcup water. Blanch and skin tomatoes and cut in halves. Remove the rinds and all the white pith of the lemons and slice the fruit thinly. Boil sugar and water to a thin syrup, add the prepared tomatoes and lemons. Stir and skim frequently and continue to boil gently until it jellies when tested on a cold plate. Pour into pots and store. TOMATO AND PINEAPPLE JAM This is described as delicious. Two pounds ripe tomatoes, 1 tin pineapple, 11b sugar, juice of 2 lemons. Put pine-' apple and tomatoes with the sugar into a pan and simmer gently until nearly boiled, then add the lemon juice. Pour into pots when ready to jelly, and store in a cool, dry place.