Old-Fashioned Tomato Preserve
Serves 20 30 min prep 60 min cook
Firm tomatoes preserved whole in a clear lemon-and-ginger syrup — an old pantry recipe that deserves to be rediscovered.
Ingredients
- 1 kg small firm tomatoes, peeled
- 1 kg white sugar
- 750 ml water
- 30 g fresh ginger, sliced
- 1 lemon, sliced
Method
- Prick each peeled tomato carefully with a skewer.
- Dissolve the sugar in the water.
- Add the ginger and lemon and bring to the boil.
- Add the tomatoes carefully.
- Simmer gently until translucent and saturated with syrup.
- Remove any foam.
- Pack the tomatoes into sterilised jars.
- Cover with boiling syrup and seal.