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Talkback: Cooking green tomatoes
Cathy Ransome
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I have used my green ones in salads. Still have a good few in the green house .
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? Anyone for "Green Tomato Wine" (after C Shave, from Amateur Winemaker - 130 New Winemaking Recipies 13th edition 1972, edited by CJJ Berry)
4lb green tomatoes, 1 quart balm leaves, including stalks, 1lb raisins, sultanas or currants (can be mixed), 1lb maize, barley or wheat, 2 lemons or oranges (or 1/2 oz citric acid in lieu), 3lb sugar, 1 gallon water, 1/2 pint cold tea (no milk!) Activated yeast & nutrient.
Soak the grains overnight. Scald the dried fruit and pass the grains, leaves & stalks, together with the tomatoes, dried fruit, fruit rinds (no white pith) through a mincer or liquidiser). Place the minced ingredients in the fermenting vessel & add the sugar. When cool, add the cold tea, fruit juices and citric acid, activated yeast and nutrient. Ferment for seven days - cover with muslin cloth or similar to exclude fruit flies etc, then strain into glass demijohn(s). Fit airlock, ferment and rack in the usual way. Put in steriised bottles & cork when completely fermented [2-4 months likely].
Simples, eh??
After that I was going to make green tomatoe chutney, but the tomatoes started rotting before I was ready to start cooking. Due to the rain this summer?!?!?!?!?!
We've not had a lot of rain - the water butts have been empty for ages, but did you plants contract any blight or fungal infections? Blight affected tomatoes will rot quite quickly.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
my wife makes a great piccalilli with green tomatoes along with cauli,cucumber,apples,onions,marrow,just some of the ingredients.
I have a lot of Green zebra heirloom , while we had the sun we were getting them a mix of turning yellow and with lots of green. We picked them when they were getting soft.a sign I believe shows they are ready.they had a beautiful taste.and some got slight blight. Which I disregard ed. But would I have been ok to cut off the blight and eat the rest .( these were a mixture of sizes and from light green to others been dark gren ).
I have picked them all as frost got some .are these really ok to eat green as in salads?
I like the sound of a green tomato cake but for me I'd have to save some for fried green tomates as served at the Whistle Stop Café.
I didn't get any tomatoes this year. All the plants were clobbered by a freak hail storm in late May so too late to buy or sow replacements. Three chilli plants survived though so all is not lost.