COUNTRY LIFE
Keeping Tomatoes Fresh As I hoped, the possibility of keeping tomatoes fresh during the winter by means other than bottling and pulping has been wort examining. Bottling needs considerable care, and a bushel of tomatoes a considerable number of bottles, so I am glad to pass on two first-class practical suggestions. One comes from a doctor who also a keen gardener. Faced with the problem of providing a diabetic patient with winter fruit—the patient having " a strange taste-comply as to imported ones "—he eventually hit on the following method Tomatoes should be picked green, packed in biscuit-tins, and coveted with dry sawdust ; no one fruit should touch another, and the last layer of fruit should be covered with sawdust. In this way "dg fruit in very good condition will be eaten up to the end of February.. I think the simplicity, cheapness and success of this excellent method need no comment from me. The other method comes from a lad, who lived for some years in Teneriffe. Most conveniently, she has a Spanish maid, who most conveniently once worked as a tomato-packer. According to the maid, the correct Teneriffe method—tons of tomatoes - must be packed by it annually—is exactly the same as the method recommended by the doctor, except that dry peat replaces sawdust I imagine that in both cases good boxes could replace tins ; and a good, warm cupboard would be the ideal place for storage.
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