818-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 26, 1993
A TASTE FOR TOMATOES
The fresh lasic of tomatoes . . .
is there any taste that says summer
better? This is the vegetable 1 long
for most when supermarkets offer
rather tasteless winter tomatoes
from south of the border.
Fresh tomatoes belong to one of
the most colorful and varied of the
basic four food groups: fruits and
vegetables. And their nutritional
offerings arc as sweet as their fla
vor and aroma.
A mcdium-si/cd tomato con
tains 35 calorics. For that very
modest amount ol energy, toma
toes provide 40% of the recom
mended daily allowance ol Vita
min C and 20% ol the Vitamin A
allowance.
They arc also a cholesterol free
food very low in sodium (only 10
milligrams). That’s a real plus for
those on special diets.
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By Doris Thomas
Lancaster Extension
Home Economist
Tomatoes have a colorful his
tory. They arc native to the Amer
icas. They were initially cultivated
by A/.tccs and Incas as early as
700 A.D. For centuries they were
thought to be poisonous. The story
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Creole’s in New Orleans pul their
cooking on the map with their to
mato-enhanced gumbos and jam
balayas. The people of Maine
quickly followed suit, combining
fresh tomatoes with local seafood.
Tomatoes used to be a high
acid lood. Many tomatoes today
arc now a borderline high-acid/
low-acid food. Without testing
you cannot tell what the acid level
is.
To guarantee that the tomatoes
you can are a high-acid food and
can be safely processed in a boil
ing water bath, they must have
acid added. It’s recommended that
you add two tablespoons bottled
lemon juice directly to each quart
of tomatoes you can (add it to the
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To enjoy fresh tomatoes at their
peak of flavor, use when fully
ripe. Ripe tomatoes should be
completely red or reddish-orange,
depending on variety. They will
have a sweet subtle aroma and will
give slightly to gentle palm pres
sure.
To hasten ripening, place fresh
tomatoes in a brown paper bag or
in a fruit ripening bowl. As the
fruit ripens, it emits a natural gas -
ethylene. This gas speeds up the
ripening process when confined
around the fruit in a closed bag or
fruit ripening bowl. Do not place
unripe tomatoes on your window
sill to ripen. They will sunburn
rather than ripen.
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