Thread: Green tomato pickles

Have three pints of green tomato pickles sitting on a towel on the
counter cooling down. Took four pounds of green tomatoes to make the
three pints. Used the recipe for sweet cuke pickles in SETP, first
edition, worked fine. Now if we get a frost, which we didn't last night,
we won't lose the tomatoes. Still have a few on one plant that we
covered last night, appears to have made it okay.

I used Pickle Crisp in these, now they will sit on a shelf in the pantry
for three weeks before we try them. Has been several years since I made
green tomato pickles, anxious to see how they turn out.

We have a ten-quart bucket of kumquats sitting on the counter. I will
wash them in the big colander and then we will let them air dry on a
couple of old towels. The biggest pain in making kumquat marmalade is
the slicing and taking out of seeds, this variety of kumquat has four
seeds to the fruit. Probably will pick another bucket this afternoon and
then make a very large batch of marmalade. Reminds me I need to pick up
ten pounds of sugar.

Pretty cool last night, this morning at dawn the temperature was 28F but
is supposed to rise the rest of the week. Possibility or rain this
coming weekend and we can surely use it.

We hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving and are looking forward to a
good Christmas. We, as usual, will celebrate with the descendants, just
waiting for one to spring forward and offer to host the soiree. I'm not
leaping up to volunteer anymore, it's time to pass the hard part over to
the young ones.

George