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tomato jam

{{Short description|Fruit Jam}}

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  • Tomatoes
  • Sugar

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Tomato jam (or tomato jelly, jamato) is a type of fruit preserve prepared with tomatoes and sugar.{{cite book | last=Saffery | first=D. | title=The Ghana Cookery Book | publisher=Jeppestown Press | year=2007 | isbn=978-0-9553936-6-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tSVcQFoIsDIC&pg=PA276}}

Overview

Green tomatoes are used in some preparations.{{cite book | title=The South African Farmer's Advocate and Home Magazine | issue=v. 28 | year=1931 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=coRKAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Tomato+jam%22+south+africa}}

Some preparations may use honey,{{cite book | last=McCarthy | first=L. | title=Jam On: The Craft of Canning Fruit | publisher=Penguin Publishing Group | year=2012 | isbn=978-1-101-57516-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HICCgL79Px8C&pg=PT141 | page=141}} and some include bacon.{{cite web | title=Recipe: Bacon and Tomato Jam | website=San Jose Mercury News | date=August 18, 2014 | url=http://www.mercurynews.com/eat-drink-play/ci_26358883/recipe-bacon-and-tomato-jam | ref={{sfnref | San Jose Mercury News | 2014}} | access-date=March 1, 2015}} It has been described as "a cross between marmalade and ketchup".{{cite web | last=Walker | first=Judy | title=Creole Tomato Jam | website=NOLA.com | date=June 16, 2011 | url=http://www.nola.com/food/index.ssf/2011/06/creole_tomato_jam.html |access-date=March 1, 2015}} Some commercially prepared varieties are produced. It is sometimes used in the preparation of sandwiches similar to a BLT, using the jam in place of tomato.{{cite web | last=Rothkopf | first=Joanna | title=Cutty's bacon, lettuce and tomato jam sandwich recipe | website=Salon.com | date=October 9, 2010 | url=http://www.salon.com/2010/10/09/bacon_lettuce_tomato_jam_sandwich_recipe/ | access-date=March 1, 2015}}

Tomato jam has been described as a popular condiment in South Africa.{{cite web | last=Slooten | first=Sue Van | title=Tomato Jam | website=Mother Earth News | date=October 26, 2011| url=http://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/tomato-jam.aspx | access-date=March 1, 2015}}

History

In 1840 in the United States, a recipe was published in the American Farmer that involved straining stewed tomatoes through cloth, adding an equal amount of sugar, and then boiling the mixture for a few hours.

In 1843 in the U.S., a recipe for preparing tomato jam was published in the Boston Cultivator. The preparation process included rubbing stewed tomatoes through a sieve, adding an equal amount of sugar, and then stewing the mixture into a jam.

See also

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References

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{{cite book | last=Smith | first=A.F. | title=The Tomato in America: Early History, Culture, and Cookery | publisher=University of Illinois Press | year=1994 | isbn=978-0-252-07009-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e82QWB89_sIC&pg=PA84| pages=84–85}}

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Further reading

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Jam

Category:Jams and jellies