I’d been inspired lately to try my hand at making preserves. There’s something magical about it and to a non-domestic goddess such as myself, the task seemed about as achievable as a trip to the moon. Two weeks ago, I finally did it. I made tomato relish. It resembles tomato relish. It smells like tomato relish and oh boy was it good on our roast lamb sandwiches.
When I was finished I ran around the house like a crazy woman. Only my husband knows what an achievement this was…after all it was only a few short years ago that I was banished from the kitchen altogether.
Here it is. Trust me…if I can do it. You can too!
Ingredients
4 kg ripe tomatoes
1½ kg onions
1½ handfuls of salt
1⅓ kg sugar
3 level tablespoons curry powder
4½ level tablespoons mustard powder
¾ teaspoon Cayenne pepper
1.7 L white vinegar
1 tablespoon cornflour
Method
Recipe notes
Tomatoes are much easier to peel if you drop them into boiling water for a minute or two. If relish mixture appears to be too watery during cooking reduce it down by leaving the lid off the pot. This relish will keep for up to 12 months in a cool cupboard.
Thanks to Best Recipes for this one.
Photo by: Sifu Renka
🙂 I started canning last spring and it was one of those things I had decided I just couldn’t do. Now I have all the equipment (including a pressure canner) and I absolutely love canning! You never have to worry that food will ever go bad (just can it when you have more than you can eat) and canned goods like jams make fabulous gifts! Great job! I hope you find it as wonderfully addictive as I have.
As I was growing up on the farm, we canned everything, vegetables, meat, fish poultry. We dehydrated many of the vegetables along with herbs of all sorts. They make very unique seasonings and they enhance the flavor of just about any food.
We would smoke the following;
VENISON; Whitetail tail deer, Mule deer / Blacktail deer, Fallow deer, Mtn Sheep, Elk, Moose, Antelope, Mtn Goat, Caribou, Moose, Bear is too greasy, Beef
FISH; TROUT, German Brown, Rainbow ( Salmon), Eastern Molly Trout; Lock Laven Trout: Large mouth Bass; Small mouth Bass; Whitefish: Carp: Sucker: Coco Salmon, Sockeye, Steelhead Salmon. Most Salmon are of the Trout species & vise versa When they reach the oceans they become Salmon, Shrimp; Lobster; Fresh water Crayfish
FOWL; W/turkey, D/turkey chicken, pheasant, Pn/grouse, Mtn/grouse, bluetail grouse, Prairie/Sage hens quail, ,