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Tomato jam rocks! Made my first batch this year with a billion cherry tomatoes. Sooooo good. I am going to make Cowboy Candy this weekend with my last jalapeños. I need to run to the store to buy just a few more to make the three pounds. My hubby is so excited.
LOL...don't you hate it when you've got the time to do your fruit....but the dang stuff won't ripen? Been watching and waiting for the rest of the peaches and pears to ripen and wouldn't you know...working 10 hr days this weekend and had to come home and put up a canner of peaches .....that decided that TODAY was the day!!! The pears are saying, "Hey LAAADY....you better have plenty of energy left after work tomorrow, because I'm NEXT!" There will be at least 2 canners ready by tomorrow evening. I've already let hubby know that he and DS WILL be on blackberry picking detail tomorrow, while us girls are at work! LOL
Okay darn it...I'm going to HAVE to try that tomato jam/jelly. I've heard so much about it and yet never gotten the gumption up to try it! LOL
Tomato jam is fabulous!! Never tried it until last year when my dad found the recipe in an old cookbook of his mothers. (My dad is 91, so you can imagine how old the book is!!). It was hard to wrap my head around it at first, but once it was done I was hooked!!
That recipe called for ginger and lemon zest....is that similar to what you all make?
Actually, Mayiask, I haven't tried to make it yet. I just keep hearing about it and I've run across several recipes for it, but just haven't tried it out. I'm not sure if any of the recipes I've seen...use ginger and lemon zest. So you recommend one that contains these?
The recipe I made was from the blog food in jars. It had spices like cloves in it. It tasted sweet and savory and a little bit BBQ and a little bit Christmas, lol. It was an awesome substitute for ketchup on chicken fingers.
Oooooooooo, so is the one you made, more of a sweet & soury kind of thing? Jeez you guys, you're really starting to make me feel like I've been missing out....in a BIG way! LOL
Okay....except for the cloves. I can not do cloves. Even a hint of cloves tells my brain, "TURPENTINE!" Weird.....but yeah. LOL
Not so much sour, it is hard to describe, lol. Sweet and spicy (not hot spicy but perfumed I guess) there was cloves, cinnamon, ginger, lime juice. Ya wouldn't think it would go together but it did. Pure awesomeness
Oooooooooo, so is the one you made, more of a sweet & soury kind of thing? Jeez you guys, you're really starting to make me feel like I've been missing out....in a BIG way! LOL
Okay....except for the cloves. I can not do cloves. Even a hint of cloves tells my brain, "TURPENTINE!" Weird.....but yeah. LOL
LOL!! Don't care for cloves, either!!
Don't have the recipe we used here, but will get it as I am going to spend the next week at the farm and will do a bunch of tomato stuff (FUNNNN!!!!)
Last year we only made about 5 jars of the jam, but will probably make more this year. Hard to describe the taste, but you don't really taste the 'sour', but it isn't overly sweet, either....just a nice blend!!
Probably did have cinnamon in it as well.
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