[gardeners] Putting up tomatoes
asidv@fbg.net (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Mon, 29 Jun 1998 20:42:35 +0000
If you don't want to dry excess tomatoes, and the ritual of dipping,
stripping, coring, bottling, hot-water-bathing isn't your thing --
perhaps you don't know what no one told me about until I was past 70.
Namely, that if you have more fresh tomatoes than you know what to do
with, and you are basically opposed to working too hard -- all you
have to do is dust them off, stick them into freezer bags and throw
them in the freezer. Then, next winter, when you want a few tomatoes,
take out as many as you want, let a little warm water run over them
for 10 seconds or so; then painlessly slip off the skins, wait a
minute, core them, and go from there. They won't do for "tomato
salad" but can be used anyplace you would use a cooked tomato. No
fuss. No work. No supplies. Been doing it for three years now. Try
it. You'll like it. Pat