{"id":7256,"date":"2013-09-17T00:14:27","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T23:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=7256"},"modified":"2013-09-17T00:14:27","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T23:14:27","slug":"pickled-green-tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/pickled-green-tomatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Pickled green tomatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pgautier\/9775480566\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7414\/9775480566_ef737e203a_m.jpg\" alt=\"Green tomatoes\" width=\"240px\" class=\"size-thumbnail\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pgautier\/9775480566\/\">Green tomatoes<\/a>, a photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pgautier\/\">PhylB<\/a> on Flickr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>I planted the tomato plants a bit too close together in the greenhouse this year, and the resulting perpetual shade has produced a harvest of 2.7 kg of green tomatoes, but only one single red one!<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, pickled green tomatoes is one of my favourites, so I spent an hour pickling them yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the receipe I used, adapted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.havenyt.dk\/forum\/fri_debat\/3289.html\">this Danish one<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>1 kg green tomatoes<br \/>\n2 chillies<br \/>\n2 vanilla pods<br \/>\n300 ml white wine vinegar<br \/>\n300 ml water<br \/>\n400 g sugar<\/p>\n<p>Wash the tomatoes and the chillies and pierce them deeply with a fork.<\/p>\n<p>Split the vanilla pods.<\/p>\n<p>Bring vinegar, water and sugar to the boil and add the chillies and the vanilla pods.<\/p>\n<p>Add one layer of tomatoes and boil them for 5-7 minutes.  Repeat with the rest of the tomatoes.<\/p>\n<p>Put the tomatoes, chillies and vanilla pods into sterilised jars.  Top up with the hot liquid, and put the lids on.<\/p>\n<p>Leave for two weeks before eating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I planted the tomato plants a bit too close together in the greenhouse this year, and the resulting perpetual shade has produced a harvest of 2.7 kg of green tomatoes, but only one single red one! Fortunately, pickled green tomatoes is one of my favourites, so I spent an hour pickling them yesterday. Here&#8217;s the receipe I used, adapted from this Danish one: 1 kg green tomatoes 2 chillies 2 vanilla pods 300 ml white wine vinegar 300 ml water 400 g sugar Wash the tomatoes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,106,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-fooddrink","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}