RED TOMATO PRESERVES RECIPE – The Southern Girl Cooks

Tomato Preserves is an excellent solution to get pleasure from tomatoes all yr. Should you develop tomatoes in the summertime, it is a recipe you must attempt. 

❤️WHY YOU WILL LOVE TOMATO PRESERVES

These preserves are candy, made with contemporary summer season tomatoes and spices, boiled down, put into jars, and thru a water bathtub for the canning course of. We like to eat this on our cathead biscuits, homemade sourdough bread, or toast. 

🍴KEY INGREDIENTS

Backyard Recent Purple Tomatoes – This can be a must-make should you develop contemporary tomatoes each summer season. We like them to be fairly ripe, however you’ll reduce out rotten components should you discover any. 

White Granulated Sugar-The sugar is what makes this candy and scrumptious. It will style like jam or jelly after we are performed. 

Spices– This recipe makes use of cloves, cinnamon, allspice, and ginger. It’s a great mixture that offers these preserves a beautiful taste.  

🥄EQUIPMENT NEEDED

Jars with lids-this recipe will make 1.5 half pints of tomato preserves. Make sure that your jars are clear. You possibly can simply sterilize them by working them via the dishwasher. 

Boiling Water Canner with Rack –  Boiling water canners have a lid and a rack for holding jars.  The rack is critical to maintain the jars off the underside of the canner through the canning course of so that they gained’t crack and to permit water to flow into below the jars.

Canning Tongs – You want these to take away the jars from the water bathtub. 

Canning Funnell – This makes it a lot simpler to fill the jars because the tomato combination can be very popular. Nevertheless, we’ve performed it with a ladle. 

Bowls- for chopping up tomatoes, discard peels and core and a pot to combine the tomato elements in for cooking. 

🍽️HOW TO MAKE

This course of can sound overwhelming, however when you get it down, it actually comes collectively rapidly. We’re going to offer you directions on making the preserves and the canning course of as nicely.

PREPARATIONS

You possibly can wash canning jars and bands in sizzling water with cleaning soap and rinse or place within the dishwasher.  The spherical self-sealing lids ought to be ready in response to the producer’s directions on the field.

Begin a pot of water on the range to scald your tomatoes so to peel the pores and skin off. This doesn’t must be boiling, however you do need it sizzling. 

In a single aspect of the sink, fill it can chilly water and add ice to it to get it actually chilly. 

You have to a bowl to discard all of the peelings and core. Plus, a bowl to chop up the tomatoes into. 

COOKING STEPS

Step 1:
Place a number of tomatoes within the sizzling water, let sit for about 30 seconds, scoop out with a ladle, and put instantly within the chilly water. Take away from water as soon as cooled, and peel the tomato. It ought to come off very simply. Discard the peel, reduce up the tomato and discard the core. Proceed this course of till all tomatoes are performed. 

Step 2: 
Subsequent, weigh the tomatoes and put them in a pan. Tie cinnamon stick, complete cloves, and complete allspice in cheesecloth and add the bag to the pot with chopped tomatoes and different spices.  Notice* If utilizing floor allspice as an alternative of complete, stir it into the combination.

Step 3:
Carry tomatoes to a boil, stirring steadily. Prepare dinner till syrup is pretty thick. (about an hour at a tough boil). 

Step 4:
Take away the spice bag and ladle into sterilized sizzling jars, leaving about 2 inches on the prime of jar.  Wipe jar rims, add lids and rings. Don’t screw rings on tight.  Have canner prepared with boiling water prepared for jars. 

Step 5
Put jars in canner with canner tongs. Course of jars in a boiling water bathtub canner for 5 minutes.  Take away from canner with canner tongs. You’ll hear the jar’s seal with a pop. As soon as sealed, tighten rings.  Let sit for twenty-four hours.

⭐TIP

You need to make sure that the tomato combination thickens up, so it is going to be scrumptious preserves if you find yourself performed. You’ll doubtless have far more than 2lbs of tomatoes, so double/triple recipe to your liking. We made 13lbs of tomatoes and had 9 half pint jars.

RECIPE VARIATIONS

You can also make this with yellow tomatoes as nicely, however we don’t combine them. I’m positive some do, however we do purple and yellow preserves. The style of the tomatoes is a bit completely different. 

WHAT TO SERVE WITH

This tomato preserves is served on something you’ll put jelly or jam on. It’s candy and scrumptious, and we like it on biscuits. You’ll like it on our sour cream biscuits. 

❓FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Sourdough Bread

This bread is at all times successful! So good and the stater is very easy!

🥄HOW TO STORE

A great rule of thumb is most canned jams/preserves processed in a canner can be good for a yr. When you open a jar, maintain it within the fridge. 

 You possibly can double it or triple it; you’ll doubtless need to. This recipe is for an abundance of tomatoes and you’ll want to get pleasure from your preserves all winter.

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