Day 17

These last weeks have been very busy with garden work. My garden did well and supplied me with an array of produce mostly in the salad department. I had planted cherry tomatoes and was blessed with a truckload. More tomatoes then I knew what to do with. Then I started looking up recipes that I could make to use them up, like spagetti sauce and stewed tomatoes, that worked well for the ripe ones but I had many more green ones that needed to be used for something quickly, anything at all would do.

I came across an odd recipe that is Amish, called Raspberry Jam. The main ingredient is ground green tomatoes. It is very good and so I thought I would share it with you.

It takes 5 cups of ground green tomatoes
4 cups of sugar or sweetner
1-6oz box red raspberry Jello (Jello brand)
Place ground tomatoes and sugar in a large pot.
Bring to a rolling boil and boil 10 minutes, stirring constantly. Turn off heat and then add the 6oz box of Jello. Stir until dissolved and put into hot sterilized jars and seal.
Cold pack for 10 minutes.

I enjoyed making it and it is tasty. Who would have thought that green tomatoes could become a mock raspberry jam. lol

Tomarrow I am going to try and make some green tomato pickles. Has anyone here ever made them?
It is a new experiment and I am hoping it will be worth eating. But if nothing else it keeps my mind focused on something other than the pain.

Hope you all had a nice day. See you all later!