Bottled Ripe Tomatoes

PUBLISHED IN Sunday Times 29 March 1925

Ingredients

Firm sound tomatoes

Sterilised water

Salt

Instructions

Choose firm, sound tomatoes, wipe and pack them into Mason's  preserving jars, fill the jars with sterilised salt water using one level tablespoonful of salt to one quart of water. Place the lids tightly on the jars, place the jars in coId water, bring to boiling, point and sterilise from eight to ten minutes, then fill jars to overflowing with the hot water and screw down quickly.

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Submitted by Mrs Lucas, Austral Parade, Bunbury

Mrs Lucas was previously Elizabeth Harkness, born in Melbourne in 1862. (WA and Victorian Registries). She married Mr Thomas Henry Lucas in 1895. They had one daughter, Victoria Adelaide Evelyn (Evelyn) who taught music at their Austral Parade home (reference). Evelyn studied under Dame Nellie Melba (reference).