My Super Marzano paste tomatoes came in and ripened so much faster than the other slicer tomatoes. I purchased a new dehydrator earlier this summer and I am absolutely loving it! It's a Sedona digital 10 tray contraption that is programmable and very quiet. Anyhow, I began drying the paste tomatoes and decided to can both the tomatoes I froze for sauce last summer and the fresh ones coming in.
 |
Thawed and Peeled Pineapple Tomatoes
|
I stumbled on a tomato jam recipe and tried my luck. Actually turned out pretty good. I pureed the tomatoes and cooked them down with cinnamon sticks, a bit of lemon zest, sugar and pectin.
 |
Tomato Jam
|
I also canned chopped tomatoes in tomato juice. Had I known that canning the tomatoes in tomato juice required a 45 minute boiling water bath I'm pretty sure that I would have opted for plain water and 15 minutes as warm as it was outside.
Of that batch only 5 of the 8 sealed correctly and I ended up having to refrigerate them. That night I went on Amazon and purchased a Pressure Canner...enough is enough.
I've got a new batch of tomatoes this week, so I will try out my Pressure Canner and see what happens.
