Tomatoes, to Bottle

Ingredients

• Choose ripe, richly-coloured tomatoes
• two onions
• one stuck with three or four cloves
• two bay leaves
• salt and pepper to taste

Method

1. 1

   Dip each tomato in boiling water to peel easily.

2. 2

   Drain well, then put them in an enamel pan and boil gently for about twelve minutes.

3. 3

   Pour boiling tomatoes into wide-mouthed bottles, fill until juice runs over, screw on tops tightly as they cool, and store in a cool, dry, dark place.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The "Queen" cookery books: Pickles and Preserves (1902) by S. Beaty-Pownall, page 8. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Tomatoes, to Bottle. — Choose ripe, richly-coloured tomatoes, as much of a size as possible (do not choose abnormally large ones), and dip each for a minute in boiling water to allow of peeling off the skin easily ; then drain them well, allowing as much as possible of their own water to escape with the scalding water, but do not press them at all. Now put them in an enamel pan, bring them steadily to the boil, stirring them gently with a wooden spoon (be careful not to break or mash them), and allow them to boil steadily and untouched for about twelve minutes ; then pour them boiling into the wide- mouthed patent bottles (which should have been oreviously scalded in boiling water and then CANNING AND BOTTLING. 17 drained), being careful to fill them until the juice runs right over ; then wipe the necks of the bottles very quickly and screw on the tops, screwing these down tighter as the contents cool ; when cold wipe the bottles well, test them to see that they are air-tight, and store in the coolest, driest, dark place available. Tomatoes can be bottled by any recipe given, and, indeed, can be preserved in a variety of ways. For instance, as conserve : Cut up 41b. or 51b. good, sound tomatoes into small pieces, removing the stalks and any green parts, and cook them till perfectly tender with two onions (one stuck with three or four cloves and two bay leaves, salt and pepper to taste

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