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Show Mighty Fittin' Those Old- Time Tomato Preserves ' ; v '' , ' 1 1 " - ii'ku, ... - V! .. - 1 ' V , I i'" -' ; - : i ' C J J J l S 4 : ; " yi i n 1 - y- v - x - : 1 Photo Courtesy Ball Bros. Co. "How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood! " Memories of old oaken buckets belong to a vanishing generation genera-tion but almost everybody has fond recollections of the favorite favor-ite foods of his childhood. Every year a good many people write Gladys Kimbrough, Home Service Director for Ball Brothers Company, manufacturer of fruit jars, requesting a recipe for pickles or preserves "like my mother or grandmother grand-mother used to make." An Old Favorite A recipe popular a hall century ago appeared in an early edition of the Ball Blue Book. It reads: "To every pound of small yellow tomatoes allow one pound of sugar. Put the tomatoes and sugar together togeth-er and to every seven pounds of sugar allow the juice of three lemons. lem-ons. Let stand together all night and in the morning drain off the sirup and boil.. (The recipe doesn't tell how long, but 10 minutes should do.) Put in the tomatoes and simmer sim-mer for twenty minutes after they boiL Remove the tomatoes and allow the sirup to boil until thick. Just before taking from the fire, add the lemon juice. Put the fruit in the jars and cover with boiling sirup. Seal immediately." If a more modern recipe Is wanted, want-ed, you might try: 2 pounds (peeled) small tomatoes 2 pounds sugar 2 cups water Vi ounce whole ginger IVz lemon (sliced thin) ounce of stick cinnamon Boil together water, sugar, lemon lem-on and spices for fifteen minutes; add tomatoes, a few at a time, and cook gently until the tomatoes become be-come bright and clear. Then $ . pour into shallow pans, cover and let stand over night. Pack the cold tomatoes into hot jars and strain the sirup over them. Process twenty minutes at simmering. Recipe for Less Sugar If you are wondering where you are going to get the sugar, ag who isn't, here is your recip: 2 pounds tomatoes 2 cups sugar 2 cups corn sirup, light Or dark Vz cup water 1 lemon 1 small orange 1 stick cinnamon 2 pieces ginger root 6 whole cloves cup raisins Use small, firm, red, yellow or green tomatoes. Scald one minute. Dip into cold water. Skin but do not core. Combine sugar, sirup, water, lemon, orange (sliced thin) and spices, and simmer 30 minutes. Remove Re-move spices. Add tomatoes and boil gently until they are bright and clear. Add raisins. Cover and let stand over night. Pack cold tomatoes toma-toes into hot fruit jars. Boll sirup until thick as honey and pour over tomatoes. Process 15 minutes at simmering. |