Terrific Tomato Soup and Other Tomato Recipes

Mother Earth News ^ | 1975! | Mother Earth News Editors

[kalee]

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[OldMissileer]

Here is my favorite:

1. Go to kitchen and retrieve a clean, wet, dishcloth and a shaker of salt

2. Go out to garden

3. Pick one ripe tomato.

4. Wipe tomato with the wet dishcloth.

5. Insert tomato in mouth, bite lightly on the tomato skin, and while holding tomato skin in teeth pull back about one inch.

6. Shake salt on exposed tomato meat.

7. Eat tomato.

8. If one tomato is not enough then repeat steps 3 to 7.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Use-Your-Green-Tomatoes Spice Bread
(really good, makes 2 loaves)

2 1/2 cups flour
2 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 tsp. dry ginger
2 eggs, beaten
1 cup brown sugar
2 tsp. molasses
2 teaspoon honey
1/2 cup canola oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup green tomato puree, undrained
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup raisins

Beat together eggs, sugar, molasses, honey, vanilla and tomato puree. Sift in the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and spices. Mix in the raisins and nuts. Pour into greased and floured loaf pans. Let rest 10 min. Bake 350F 45-50 minutes.

[Red Badger]

It’s either that or my neighbors are stealin’ my tomatoes!...................

[Mrs. Don-o]

:oO

[Mrs. Don-o]

OOPS! That's supposed to be more like this:

:oO

[MissNomer]

self-ping

[Red_Devil 232]

Where are you located?

Your tomatoes blooming and lacking fruit can be do to air temp. either too cool or to hot. Also, as another poster noted, to much nitrogen in your fert. can be a problem.

[metmom]

My tomatoes are hanging on and starting to ripen.

Looks like I’ll get something out of the garden.

On another note....

I’ve let some beans go to ripen for seed. How do I tell when they’re done ripening and when I should pick them? And do they need to cure before taking out the seed?

[metmom]

I’ve noticed that the apple orchards here in NYS are looking really nice.

That’s great because we had a couple really late freezes and frosts, after the trees bloomed, and people were worried about it.

It’ll be applesauce and apple crisp time before you know it.

[Red_Devil 232]

Each individual kernel must be pollinated kernels that don’t receive pollen will not fill out. Also could be insufficient soil moisture or potassium deficiency.

[BenLurkin]

Thank you. We’ll look into that.

[LadyPilgrim]

Good info...thanks! :-)

[tubebender]

The Mother Earth News and Fox Fire! I read them all back in the day and may still have them stashed away in some musty place. Also Prevention and Organic Gardening, Oh My Diana, we are really dating ourselves here. I dropped MEN when they got too radical for this lifelong conservative and I think they still owe me a refund now that I think about.

Now we get Cooks Illustrated, Fine Cooking, Garden Gate and Fine Gardening etc. We are going to the Farmers Market this morning to pickup some Cherokee Purple tomatoes and whatever strikes our fancy then to my Cardiologist for my 5 year checkup...

[Red Badger]

Florida Panhandle right where Claudette came ashore..............about a mile from my house.............

[chickpundit]

Thanks for the article. I’m new to canning this year, and can use all the ideas/help I can get.

Can anyone give me advice on converting recipes from water bath to pressure canner? Or perhaps recommend a recipe book with mostly recipes for this kind of canner? I understand you’re supposed to go strictly by recipes, but I’ve been having trouble finding some recipes for the pressure canner. Since the pressure canner is safer, and I already own one, I’d rather just use it. Are there some things that just shouldn’t be canned in a pressure canner? Thanks for any advice.

[tubebender]

....any idea why our corn doesn’t have very many kernels?

That happened to me back in the early 70s and I learned it was lack of pollination so now I walk through the patch 2 or 3 different times when the pollen in on the tassels and the silk first appears on the cob and I shake EVERY plant.

[Red_Devil 232]

You should not be having a temp. problem then. Get some Miracle Grow - Bloom Booster. It might help out. It is a 15-30-15 (nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium ) fert. it has the phosphorus and potassium you may need.

[Betis70]

And my favorite...Apple Cider!

[Rodamala]

Now we get Cooks Illustrated

My mom gets this publication, and I always love to read the column the guy with the bowtie (Kimball?) writes.