NMAA cookbook 1975 second edition
recipe1916 for those with the book

10kg ripe tomatoes chopped
1.5kg apples
30g garlic
125 gms salt
3 cups vinegar
1 kg sugar
half teaspoon cayenne pepper or tabasco sauce more if desired
30g cloves
30g peppercorns
60g allspice

wash and sterilise bottles. (for those who don’t know – pour boiling water over clean bottles and dry bottles in a very cool (80C) oven.)

Peel, core and dice apples. Finely chop garlic. Place together with tomatoes in pan and boil until very soft and pulpy. Strain through a course sieve to remove skins. Return to pan with salt, vinegar, sugar, cayenne and spices tied in a muslin bag. Boil rapidly for 2 hours. Remove muslin bag. Bottle and seal.

Pepe says – put all the ingredients (except spices in the bag) in the whiz and don’t bother with the sieve idea. Boil for longer than 2 hours to make a stronger, less runny sauce.

If there’s a flea market this weekend, I might go and have a look-see…for tomatoes…

going to check out the nursery later today for some tomato plants…the weather is fantastic for planting out at the moment and we must be close to a new moon???

Thanks Pepe :)

thanks pepe :)

bluegreen said:

thanks pepe :)

no probs ladies.
i get 4 ×750ml bottles out of it.

i think you could play with adding zuchs, capsicums or quinces, maybe chokos as ‘fillers’ but i don’t.

pepe said:

bluegreen said:

thanks pepe :)

no probs ladies.
i get 4 ×750ml bottles out of it.

i think you could play with adding zuchs, capsicums or quinces, maybe chokos as ‘fillers’ but i don’t.

…out of half the recipe – five kilos of toms.