WebAugust 27, 2020 – Today would be the start of the Minnesota State Fair, so an appropriate day to post a family-favorite recipe! Old-fashioned tomato preserves …
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Easy old fashioned tomato preserves is a delightfully easy jam to make. A great way to use up those end of the summer tomatoes. Easy old fashioned tomato preserves is a simple homemade jam with tomatoes, lemons and sugar. Kick it up with a little ginger or cinnamon. Do you have too many tomatoes and are running out of things to make?
Run cold water over them, remove the skins and place a layer of tomatoes in an enamel saucepan, sprinkle one cup of sugar over every six tomatoes and four thin slices of lemon, put in six more sliced tomatoes and one cup of sugar and the four slices of lemon and repeat the same until the saucepan is half filled. Cover, set aside for six hours.
Place on the stove and cook rapidly for twenty minutes or a little longer if the preserve is not thick enough. Be sure to use firm ripe fruit. Poor tomatoes make poor preserves.
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