Tomato Chutney (with honey)

New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 349, 1 March 1946, Page 22

Tomato Chutney (with honey)

Four pounds of tomatoes, 21b. sultanas, 1lb. dates, 11b. apples, 1 large onion, 1b. honey, 2 teaspoon ground cloves, 1 tablespoon salt, juice of 2 lemons, 42 cup vinegar. Peel and cut up tomatoes, apples and onions. Put all together and boil for 2_ hours. Sweet Chutney Three pounds of apples, 21b. tomatoes, 21b. peaches or apricots, 4lb. brown sugar, 2lb. onions, 1lb. sultanas, 2 tablespoons ‘salt, 1 tablespoon ground ginger, oz. cayenne pepper, %0z. ground mace, 1% gallon vinegar. Slice finely, and cover with the sugar and the vinegar. Leave overnight. Next day boil for three hours, adding the juice of-2 lemons, about 1 hour before ready. Tomato Sauce (with honey) Eight pounds tomatoes, 2lb. honey, 11b, large onions, 2 tablespoons salt, 1 teaspoon ground cloves, 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper. Cover with vinegar and boil for three hours. Should not ferment. Stuffed Tomato Salad Cut a slice off top .of tomato, and scoop out most of the pulp. Sprinkle the inside of the tomato with pepper and salt. Mix the pulp with celery, chives, parsley, and mint, all finely chopped. If no chives, use a little spring onion. Add a little mayonnaise, to bind all together, and pack the tomato cases with the mixture, piling high. Across the top arrange crosswise four strips of cooked fish, or cheese, or meat; or a hard-boiled egg cut into four, longways. Arrange slices of cucumber around the tomato, the whole being placed on a fresh lettuce leaf. Tomato and Cucumber Salad Cut a slice from top of tomato, and scoop out a little of the pulp. Grate a fresh cucumber and fill the tomato case with it; season with pepper and salt. Mix the scooped-out pulp with a little mayonnaise, and put on top of the cucumber. rve on crisp lettuce leaves, with cold een peas heaped around. Another very

tasty filling for tomatoes is cream cheese, flavoured with chopped chives or onion. The pulp can be put back on top of the cheese.