Marcelle: This has nothing to do with embroidery but wanted to tell you how to can green tomatoes. Slice about 1/2 inch thick. Put in boiling water just till they start to turn color but not a lot. Fill jars add 1 teaspoon salt, fill with water you blanched them in and seal. I always have water in canner getting hot while blanching tomatoes then put the jars into canner. As soon as water starts to boil time them for just 3 minutes. Turn off stove and slide lid of canner over a little to let steam out. After just a minute or so set out on towels to cool. I coat with flour and fry in crisco solid. guess you can use oil if want to but I like the solid. Yummy to eat all winter. The reason I heat canner water first is so they never over cook. I grew up on them and just can't get thru winter wihout them. LOL I eat them on bread and butter. Oh my now I'm hungry. Just canned 19 jars today and 16 last week.

I have canned a lot of ripe tomatoes but have never canned the green ones! Thanks for this I will try them. I usually just slice the green ones,coat them in a little cornmeal,and flash freeze them on a tray.When they are frozen I store them in ziplock bags and take out what I need at the time.
Hugs, Nadyne

Hi, back again. I assume you are using a hot water
bath canner and not a pressure cooker. Maureen

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by nanabs 18 Sep 2011

yes hot water bath canner. Here we call it cold packing and I have no idea why because we use hot water. lol

Hi, now that I'm hungry where do you live. I'll be
right over. I have canned and put up frozen veg. all
my life. Never have I heard of green tomatoes being
canned. I would like to try that, but would need help. My husband pasted 8 years ago. He was a great helper. He was a avid fisherman and I always had
crabs, oysters, shrimp, fish and homemade gumbo in
the freezer. Now I have to buy seafood. Enjoy the
fruit of your labor. Maureen

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by nanabs 18 Sep 2011

Maureen: Since my hubby got sick we were not able to grow our garden anynore so I've bought them over the years. Since he passed 1 1/2 years ago I'm also on my own so I only do green tomatoes now. Hope you try them and enjoy them. If we lived close I'd invite you over for some.

by nanabs 18 Sep 2011

opps lost the rest of my comment. If we lived close I'd have you over for some...

Thanks for that information. It all sounds so easy.
I preserved a lot of our food for our five hungry kids for the first 35 years of our marriage. Now with the family nest empty, we just pick what we want each day from the orchard or garden.
After next summer, if we do have any green tomatoes on the vines, I'll try out Fried Green Tomatoes on toast.
AlmaG.

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by nanabs 18 Sep 2011

Alma they may be good on toast. Never tried that but I do love home canned or even store bought red ones on toast. My grandma taught me thah and my daughter even likes them like that. Will have to try toast.