Emma Miller
The fresh vegetable season is passing, which means you need to figure out how to keep them fresh longer. Tomatoes can be canned or left in the cellar, it’s up to you.
How to keep tomatoes fresh for the winter with mustard – a recipe
This option is used by hostesses who do not want to engage in full-fledged canning but know that mustard perfectly preserves vegetables. You need to take three-liter jars, sheets of paper, and mustard powder.
Wash the tomatoes, cut off the roots, and dry the vegetables. Put the tomatoes in the jar as the first layer so that they do not squeeze each other too much, sprinkle mustard and cover with paper. Repeat until there is no more room in the jar. In the end, close the containers with lids and put them down in the cellar.
Fresh tomatoes for the winter with alcohol – grandma’s method
If this method seems most appealing to you, prepare:
- tomatoes;
- alcohol;
- A thick thread for the wick.
You need to sterilize the jars, put the tomatoes and add 2 tbsp of alcohol. Cover the jar with a lid and twist it to distribute the alcohol evenly over the container. Light a wick, drop it into the jar and immediately close it tightly.
Lifehack, how to keep tomatoes fresh for the winter in the paper
You need to find a piece of paper and wrap each vegetable in it, and then put them all in the refrigerator. At the same time, make sure that no moisture gets on the newspaper, and if this happens – change the wrapping. In this way you can stack tomatoes not only in the refrigerator but also in the cellar, using crates as containers.
Option how to store ripe tomatoes at home with sawdust
Many Peoples do exactly this – put tomatoes in sawdust or hay, then – in crates, hiding the harvest in the cellar. For the result to justify expectations, you need to find fresh sawdust or hay and cover the bottom of the box with them. Then lay out the tomatoes in rows, fruit stem up.
The next step is to overlay the paper, pour over sawdust, and again lay out the tomatoes. Do so until the vegetables run out, but the main thing is to observe the conditions for storing tomatoes:
- the temperature in the cellar – no higher than 10°C;
- Moisture and sunlight are absent.
If you do everything correctly, even in winter you can enjoy fragrant and ripe tomatoes.
