Sadly the blight has really got hold of my tomatoes in the back garden and this weekend (if not before) i will be taking down the second lots of plants, having got rid of the growbag by the back door a couple of weeks ago.
When i took the first set of plants down, there were still lots of green tomatoes on the plant that the blight hadn't reached yet. So i decided to look into a recipe to use them. It seem that over in the USA they eat green tomatoes alot, for example fried green tomatoes. but those recipes used large tomatoes and i didn't fancy trying to slice and breadcrumb lots of cherry tomatoes! In the UK the favourite recipes are chutneys and relishes, however having made stuff to jar like jams and chutneys in the past i know from previous experience that they just don't get used in our house. So i decided on another American recipe - Green Tomato Cake
Other recipes i'd seen didn't tell you to salt the tomatoes, and after reading one of the reviews below this recipe which said the salt just didn't rinse off, i chose not to salt them. this could have been a mistake.....
The batter was lovely. Beautifully spiced with nutmeg and cinnamon but the tomatoes......
very very bitter and sadly even combined with the sweet spiced sponge they weren't redeemed. one mouthful could be lovely with the sponge but as soon as you took a bite with a bit of green tomato you were left with a bitter aftertaste. Not a success and it didn't make it to D's work as i had planned. I'll leave you with a picture of where it did end up.......
and 2 weeks on even the birds don't seem to want it!!
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