Preservation Spiced Tomatoes

spiced tomatoes
(from The Southern Gardener and Receipt-book: Containing Valuable Information, Original and Otherwise by Mary L. Edgeworth, 1860)

Ingredients:

1 bushel of tomatoes​

1 tbsp. cayenne pepper​

1 tbsp. black pepper​

1 tsp. salt​

1/2 oz. clove​

1 oz. mace​

suet​

buckskin​

​

Instructions:

​

Pour boiling water over a bushel of tomatoes and then skin them; then boil them well; after which add a table-spoonful each of cayenne and black pepper; a tea-spoonful of salt; half an ounce of clove; one ounce of mace; mix well, and put tomatoes in jars and pour a coating of suet over them, and tie buckskin over the tops. Prepared in this way they will keep for a year.​

I decided to post this recipe today as it is the first day of fall and all of you northerners should or will be harvesting their crop of tomatoes, especially those Great Jersey Beefsteak tomato.

Secondly this recipe tells how they canned produce in the 1860's.

 

[LoyaltyOfDogs]

I decided to post this recipe today as it is the first day of fall and all of you northerners should or will be harvesting their crop of tomatoes,especially those Great Jersey Beefsteak tomatoe.
Secondly this recipe tells how they canned produce in the 1860's.
Pour boiling water over a bushel of tomatoes and then skin them;then boil them well;after which add a table-spoonful each of cayenne and black pepper;a rea-spoonful of salt;half an ounce of clove;one ounce of mace;mix well,and put tomatoes in jars and pour a coating of suet over them,and tie buckskin over the tops.prepared in this way they will keep for a year.
This recipe came from "The Southern Gardener and Receipt Book:Containing Value able Information,Original and Otherwise" by Mary L.Edgeworth
Third edition published by J.P.Lippincott and Co.,Philadelphia,Pa. 1860.

Great timing, @nitrofd, thanks for sharing this! Just last evening my husband and I were looking for recipes for the bounty of tomatoes we received yesterday from the farm where we get most of our vegetables. I'll make some this weekend.

 

[donna]

Here is tomato spiced recipe like one I just posted. This one from cookbook nitrofd has. The one I posted was from Old Time Recipes To Enjoy. Very a like.