Yellow Pear Tomato Preserves Recipes

PEAR TOMATO PRESERVES

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, combine sugar, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, lemons and water. Cook over medium heat for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the tomatoes. Reduce heat to low; continue cooking for 45-60 minutes or until tomatoes become transparent, stirring frequently., Ladle hot mixture into five hot half-pint jars, leaving 1/4-in. headspace. Remove air bubbles and adjust headspace, if necessary, by adding hot mixture. Wipe rims. Center lids on jars; screw on bands until fingertip tight., Place the jars into canner with simmering water, ensuring that they are completely covered with water. Bring to a boil; process 20 minutes. Remove jars and cool.

YELLOW PEAR TOMATO PRESERVES

Steps:

• Wash& dry tomatoes.
• Cut a thin slice from blossom end and press out seeds and discard.
• Combine tomatoes, sugar& salt, simmer until sugar is dissolved.
• Boil for about 40 minutes.
• Add thinly sliced lemon and minced or sliced ginger.
• Boil about 10 minutes longer.
• Pour into hot jars and seal at once.

TOMATO PRESERVES

Steps:

• Slice an x in the top of each tomato. Place in a pot of boiling water until skin begins to peel off. Immediately place in a bowl of ice water. Slough off skin and remove stem button.
• Weigh tomatoes and place in a non reactive bowl (plastic or glass). Gently squeeze tomatoes by hand or with a wooden spoon to release juice. Add an equal weight of sugar. Let stand for 12 hours.
• When ready to cook, place two metal teaspoons in the freezer.
• Drain juice into a large sauce pan. Boil until the syrup thickens and falls of a spoon in heavy drops. Approximately 20 minutes.
• Rough chop the tomatoes and add to the thickened syrup. Grate the lemon zest and add to the syrup. Cut lemon in half and squeeze juice into the syrup. Add the ginger or cinnamon.
• Boil mixture until thick for 20-30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• To test for doneness, remove one spoon from the freezer. With the spoon you used to stir the preserves remove a small amount of jam and pour into the frozen spoon. Tilt the frozen spoon over the pot, if the preserves pour off in large thick drops it is done. If it pours off quickly, boil for another few minutes and retest with the other frozen spoon.
• Remove ginger or cinnamon. Put preserves in sterilized jars and boil in a water bath canner for 20 minutes.

YELLOW PEAR TOMATO PRESERVES

Steps:

• 1. Wash and dry tomatoes.
• 2. Cut a thin slice at blossom end, press out seeds discard.
• 3. Combine tomatoes, sugar, salt and simmer until sugar dissolves.
• 4. Boil about 40 minutes.
• 5. Add thinly sliced lemon and minced ginger root.
• 6. Boil 10 minutes longer.
• 7. Pour into hot jars and seal. Water bath for 10 minutes.

YELLOW TOMATO PRESERVES

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• Bring a pot of water to a boil. Cut off the stem ends of the tomatoes and place them in a heatproof pot or bowl. Pour the boiling water over the tomatoes.
• When cool enough to handle, drain, and slip the skins off the tomatoes. Squish out most of the seedy gel. Discard skins and seeds.
• Coarsely chop the skinned, seeded tomatoes. Stir together with the sugar and honey. Let sit in the refrigerator for at least two hours or overnight.
• Sterilize 3 half-pint jars by boiling them in water for 15 minutes. Turn off the heat and leave the jars in the hot water until you are ready to fill them.
• While the jars are sterilizing, seed and very finely chop the lemons, discarding the seeds but keeping the peels along with the pulp. The citrus peels provide the pectin in this recipe that gives the preserves a nice gel.
• Peel and finely chop or grate the ginger. Add the ginger and lemons to the other ingredients in a large pot.
• Bring to a boil, stirring, until the setting point is reached.
• Ladle into sterilized half-pint jars leaving 1/2-inch headspace. Process in boiling water bath for 5 minutes.

YELLOW TOMATO PRESERVES

Steps:

• Scald, peel and chop tomatoes. Cover and simmer 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Measure 3 cups into a 6 or 8 quart saucepot. Add lemon juice, grated lemon rind, cinnamon and ginger to tomatoes. Measure sugar and set aside. Stir fruit pectin into prepared tomatoes. (Saucepot must be no more than 1/3 full to allow for a full rolling boil.) Bring to a full boil over high heat, stirring constantly. At once stir in sugar. Stir and bring to a full rolling boil (a boil that cannot be stirred down). Then boil hard 1 minute, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Skim off foam. Immediately ladle into hot sterilized jars, leaving 1/4 inch space at top. With a damp cloth, wipe jar rims and threads clean. Immediately cover jars with hot lids. Screw bands on firmly. Let stand to cool. Check seals. Store jam in a cool dry place.

TOMATO PRESERVES WITH PECTIN

Steps:

• Peel the tomatoes and chop the flesh. Place the tomatoes in a saucepan and cook over medium heat for about 10 minutes or until the tomatoes have broken down and release their juices. You should have about 3 cups of cooked tomatoes. Add the lemon juice and pectin. Bring the mixture to a rolling boil over high heat, stirring constantly. Add the sugar to the tomatoes. Return the mixture to a boil, stirring constantly. Remove the pan from the heat. Skim off any foam. Pour the tomato preserves into sterilized canning jars and process in a hot water bath for 15 minutes or as directed by the jar manufacturer.

YELLOW PEAR TOMATO SALSA

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients.
• Cover and refrigerate at least 1 hour.