Mock Raspberry Jam

The other day we checked the weather report and saw that the temperature was due to dip below freezing.

 

With the report of cold temperatures on their way by morning, My husband and son went out to the garden to pick the remaining tomatoes.

 

Yes they were Green!

 Do you know what you can do with GREEN tomatoes?!

Let me share with you what we did with them...

 

 

First we washed them, then threw them in the blender.

It was FAST. Much faster then the recipe that says to grate them.

How do you grate a tomato anyway?

 

Then measured out the amount that was called for and put them in the pot, with sugar.

Boiled it all for about 10 min.

 

 Then added a box of jello per recipe. I was doing multiple recipes here.

LOOK at that!

 Can you tell the difference between Berries and Tomatoes?

It's like the seeds just pop and scream Raspberry. (but it's not)

 

Then simmered it all for an additional 20 min.

 

 

 We put some into jars and put the lid on them and called it good.

Into the freezer they went. Done!

 

Then we did a HUGE batch that we processed in the water bath canner for @ 10min.

After a call to Sister Cox first to make sure it could be done and for how long.

Yes, you are lookng at a pot of 30 pints.

Awesome huh?!

 

 

 Not bad for a few hours in the kitchen!

It was my first time to do it so I searched through the Internet to see how others had done it. Since then I have talked to someone else who did it, and she said that she changed her ratios a little. More tomatoes and less sugar. That sounds like a good idea too. We have had lots of people try it without telling them what it was, and they would never had guessed that it was GREEN TOMATOES.

Here is the recipe that I followed:

Mock Raspberry Jam

4 cups shredded green tomatoes (I did mine in the blender)
4 cups white sugar
1 (6 oz) box of jello (strawberry, raspberry or boysenberry)

1. Combine tomatoes and sugar in a large saucepan and bring to a boil over medium heat. Stir and cook about 10 minutes. Add the gelatin, reduce heat to low, and simmer for 20 minutes.
2. Spoon into hot, sterilized jars and seal; or, pour into freezer containers and freeze.