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Subject: BS: Sun dried tomatos From: GUEST,MarkS Date: 13 Aug 07 - 10:24 PM Hi All Does any 'Catter have experience making home made sun dried tomatos? For some reason we have lots of tomatos this year and are trying to figure out what to do with them. Thought this would be a good place to start! Any suggestions? Thanks MarkS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Sun dried tomatos From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 13 Aug 07 - 10:42 PM Shouldn't 'tomatos' be spelt 'tomatoes'? Mr Pedantic. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Sun dried tomatos From: Liz the Squeak Date: 13 Aug 07 - 11:48 PM Not sundried, but have recipies for green and red tomato chutney - a pickle/relish that is allegedly great on burgers and salads. I'm not a tomato eater so have never had the urge to store them. This site here has some simple and sensible ideas. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Sun dried tomatos From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 14 Aug 07 - 12:41 AM I put my extra tomatoes in boiling water till the skins pop, cool them, peel them and freeze them. I freeze them in quart-size plastic bags, letting each bag hold an amount about equal to the amount in a can. They are delicious all winter in pasta sauces, chili, and similar dishes. In the middle of winter you can thaw some and whiz them in a blender with oil and basil. This makes a salad dressing with the taste of summer in it. You have to eat it by candlelight because red dressing on green lettuce doesn't look too good. I once had a recipe for drying cherry tomatoes in the oven, but I didn't consider it worth the effort and don't have the recipe any more. But you could probably find it on the web somewhere. Whenever I hear about sun-dried food I wonder how they kept the flies off. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Sun dried tomatos From: GUEST,DK Date: 14 Aug 07 - 02:00 AM I have always supposed that 'sun-dried' tomatoes are dried in big commercial ovens somewhere. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Sun dried tomatos From: The PA Date: 14 Aug 07 - 03:20 AM Drying toms in the oven takes ages. You can buy small domestic dryers. A friend of ours has one, supposed to be really good. You can dry fruit in them too (apple rings, pears, etc). Our tommie crop is rubbish this year, we usually have half a freezer full by now. Freezings OK too. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Sun dried tomatos From: Sorcha Date: 14 Aug 07 - 08:22 AM Biggest problem with 'sun dried' is keeping the bugs and dirt off. I highly reccomend a dehydrator. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Sun dried tomatos From: TheSnail Date: 14 Aug 07 - 08:48 AM Sun dried? You're not living in the UK then? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Sun dried tomatos From: Bee Date: 14 Aug 07 - 03:21 PM I've a friend who's managed to sundry some of her tomatos a couple years. A dry sunny September, cheesecloth and screened frames to lay them on, ever so thin slices, and religiously fetching them in at evening were the neccessities. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Sun dried tomatos From: Greg B Date: 14 Aug 07 - 03:42 PM Ditto the dehydrator. The big discount stores sell them. Good for bananas, etc. as well. Also for turning all that mint that grows like weeds into tea. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Sun dried tomatos From: Bee Date: 14 Aug 07 - 08:55 PM Mint's easy, I just hang it in small bunches upside down in a dry closet for a few days. Though I'm out: I like a particular species of mint that grows on coarse sand lake shores around here, unfortunately our lake's too rocky and peaty. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Sun dried tomatos From: open mike Date: 14 Aug 07 - 10:06 PM cut them in half or in slices to increase the surface area. this works especially good with low-moisture paste tomatoes...roma, san marzano, LaRoma, viva italia or other italian pear types. http://homecooking.about.com/od/howtocookvegetables/a/sundriedrecipe.htm the recipesa i have seen suggest to sprinkle with salt to help draw out the moisture |
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Subject: RE: BS: Sun dried tomatos From: Greg B Date: 14 Aug 07 - 11:49 PM Hanging things to dry works in dry climates--- in the US Northeast, it often results in a rather nasty growth of mold. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Sun dried tomatos From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 14 Aug 07 - 11:56 PM 'Sundry Tomatoes' Sundry \Sun"dry\, a. [OE. sundry, sondry, AS. syndrig, fr. sundor asunder. See {Sunder}, v. t.] 1. Several; divers; more than one or two; various. "Sundry wines." --Chaucer. "Sundry weighty reasons." --Shak. [1913 Webster] With many a sound of sundry melody. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Sundry foes the rural realm surround. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. Separate; diverse. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Every church almost had the Bible of a sundry translation. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster] {All and sundry}, all collectively, and each separately. [1913 Webster] -- From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`` Aside from that... 'sundrying' really needs a fairly regular low humidity climate to work. |
