In July I had travelling plans, but my feet injury recommended: “No way, it’s time to relax”. So, I spent most of the days of August in friends and family’s houses. And that was a perfect excuse to recuperate some old tasks I had had forgotten them. Like this one: do some tomatoes canned in summer!
Look at the colour, the texture… you can almost taste it! Even certainly most of you already know how to do it, I think maybe there’s somebody who has no idea. Consequently, I’m going to explain how my family usually do it. We all got up at seven in the morning, because summer time usually is very hot in Valencia. If other case, flies would be annoying all the time, flying around the tomatoes. Firstly, you have to boil the skin tomatoes. This boiling makes easier to peel them. If you don’t want to hurt your hands, you should wait some minutes to refresh them.
Secondly, you have to push them into a glass jars, and closes it. At the same time, you have a huge pot with water in the fire to boil the jars. They have to be boiling about 40 minutes. Then, you just have to wait them to cool, and take care of them until next winter!
It’s a brilliant idea, especially in a city like Barcelona, where each year is more difficult to find tasty tomatoes in a reasonable price! And finally, despite my initials reservations, I had a great time!
Your picture and your story makes me to remember when I was a child and I spend the summer in the little village where my grand mother was born. She and her sisters every summer put tomato and other vegetables in cans. It's really a fond memory.
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