Finger-licking tomatoes
5 September 2022 01:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeAfter my previous experience with Olia Hercules' “Пальчики оближеш” I didn't bother trying to seal the jars on this batch at all. The last lot were extremely tasty when eaten at room temperature immediately after fermentation, and a great disappointment when broached later after several months' chilled storage -- they went woolly and tasteless. So these ones are destined to be eaten more or less right away.
I'm a bit puzzled by the fact that I seem to have a far smaller volume of tomatoes than last time -- I assume I simply haven't doubled the quantities, because the post refers to a two-quart jar whereas this time round I only filled a single medium jar plus one small one, instead of the two giant jars plus extras! Possibly it is because a proportion of the pound of fruit was comprised of my small towel-tomatoes, instead of giant beefsteak ones, and the former obviously pack down far more closely into the jars. I did seem to have a certain quantity of 'brine' left over after I'd filled my two jars, though I wouldn't have said there was an extra half...
I'm a bit puzzled by the fact that I seem to have a far smaller volume of tomatoes than last time -- I assume I simply haven't doubled the quantities, because the post refers to a two-quart jar whereas this time round I only filled a single medium jar plus one small one, instead of the two giant jars plus extras! Possibly it is because a proportion of the pound of fruit was comprised of my small towel-tomatoes, instead of giant beefsteak ones, and the former obviously pack down far more closely into the jars. I did seem to have a certain quantity of 'brine' left over after I'd filled my two jars, though I wouldn't have said there was an extra half...