Rachel's Homemade Tomolives

Ingredients:
iii 1/4 lb greenish (unripe) cherry tomatoes
half dozen cloves garlic (one for each jar)
half dozen cayenne peppers (one for each jar)
1/4 (loose) loving cup dill, chopped
1 1/2 tablespoons xanthous mustard seed
1/3 loving cup pickling salt
iii cups white vinegar
iii cups H2O

Directions:
Evenly separate the tomatoes, garlic, peppers, dill together with mustard seeds betwixt half dozen jars. Bring the water, vinegar together with tabular array salt to a boil. Prep the lids/jars. Pour inwards the boiling vinegar mixture, leaving 1/2 inch headspace. Poke downward whatever tomatoes that convey floated also to a greater extent than or less the top. Close the jars together with procedure for 10 minutes inwards a hot H2O bath. Allow to sit down at to the lowest degree i calendar week earlier eating.

Yield: I ended upwardly amongst iii one-half pints, 1 12 oz outrage together with two 16-oz elite jars.


Note: This is a fairly flexible recipe. The batch of brine is a chip to a greater extent than than strictly needed because, depending on the size of your tomatoes, yous may ask to a greater extent than or less of it. You may ask to a greater extent than or less jars every bit well. Just pack the tomatoes inwards tightly together with seat a clove of garlic together with a pepper inwards each one.

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My thoughts:

We did non convey a practiced love apple tree crop this year. Lots of flower terminate rot at the start of the summertime hence nothing. Well, zilch until September when nosotros of a precipitous starting getting tomatoes again, almost of which did non ripen. Among them were dozens of greenish cherry tomatoes, cherry tomatoes from a constitute nosotros didn't constitute but but sprung up. I mean value it must live from some supermarket cherry tomatoes nosotros bought together with composted last winter when desperate for love apple tree together with fifty-fifty store-bought cherry tomatoes started to expect good. Anyway, that plant* was far together with away the almost prolific of all of our plants. I had Tomolives for the foremost fourth dimension inwards pickled some wedges earlier but the whole tomatoes were but hence cute, I see I'd revisit the idea. I used cayenne from the garden together with some fresh dill. They came out actually well, perfect piffling pickled olive-y spheres.

*And a huge, crazy pumpkin constitute that also grew upwardly from the compost. That affair took over one-half the yard.