Re: Re: Tomatoes, now Jim's distillery
Kathy, this is what I've learned.
When you steam-juice tomatoes, the juice comes out almost clear. It
tastes like tomato juice but doesn't look like it owing to the absence
of pulp. You can add pulp if you want--doesn't affect the taste one way
or the other.
But waste not, want not. The residue from the juicing process--the
pulp. skin, and seeds--if run through a food mill of some sort [I use a
Squeezo, but there are lots of alternatives] will yield tomato sauce,
and it's tomato sauce ready to can or freeze because it doesn't need to
be cooked down to get rid of the "water." It will need a dash of salt,
however.
It could be the same with other fruits. I don't know but I would
imagine running the residue of a blackberry juicing, say, through a
Squeezo would yield pure, seedless pulp that only needs a bit of
sweetener to be jam--and no prolonged cooking.
On Jul 18, 2007, at 2:57 PM, Cornergar@aol.com wrote:
I have buckets full of a sweet tomato called "Glacier" we tried for
the first
time this year. Got the seed from Totally Tomatoes and it was
producing by
July 4th. Normally we don't have any before mid Aug. They are quite
small so I
think we will make juice with the excess in our new steam distiller.
Jim, you
have to take credit/blame for this. It's all your fault that we have
found yet
another way to spend money! I was so intrigued by your description a
while
back that I started searching and we ended up buying the Finnish
Mehta-Liisa
model. We have blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, apples, pears,
serviceberries and of course various veggies that we can experiment
with. And to make a
long story even longer...when we went to the Finnish website we found
they were
offering a cookbook by Beatrice Ojakangas we could download. This
author is a
well known chef/ cookbook author from the same very small town (600
pop.) in
northern Minn that I am from. As always..small world! Kathy
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