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Green Tomatoes, and Reminiscences
Brought in all the remaining tomatoes yesterday morning—we had a good hard frost, unusual for us this early in the year in Texas. I used to put green tomatoes on windowsills in the sun to ripen, but I've found it works much better to spread them out on a tray, in a single layer, between sheets of newspaper. How counterintuitive is that? I suppose it's related to the way you ripen fruit from the grocery store in a brown paper bag.
Anyway, I have a lot of green tomatoes, so as they all ripen I'll have to cook them into sauce and freeze them. I've never tried canning—although I remember my mother canning tomatoes, peaches, cherries, and grape juice (all from fruit on our own vines and trees) and making applesauce from apples we'd go out and pick on a Sunday afternoon. I can still see her boiling the Mason jars in the huge cooker, and then the cupboard in the basement filled with jars full of goodies. And when Mother made a cherry pie with home-canned cherries and scratch pastry... now that was a cherry pie.
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green tomatoes
My grandmother never ripened them on the window. If they weren't ripe on the vine, she fried them.
Green Tomato Catsup
...that's what my granny always made! Of course, we ate fried-green tomatoes, too! I remember bringing all the green tomatoes into the basement and sitting them in rows on the ping-pong tables. We wrapped them in newspaper, too!
Blessings,
Lenora
whoops
I picked off all my tomatoes right before our first hard frost, but then forgot about them. Now they are all yucky! bleh. Going to throw them in the pit this afternoon. Someday, I'm going to can them...
Libby, I'm in E. New Mexico, fairly close to the Texas line. Are you anywhere near W. Texas?
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