Tomato Jelly

Ingredients

• Slices of the ripest and best tomatoes
• A piece of dough
• Brown sugar
• Eggs

Jelly made to eat with meat without using sugar

• Salt
• Pepper
• Mace
• Nutmeg

Directions

1. Fill a large jar with the tomato slices.
2. Lay a cloth over the jar and put the dough over it, to keep in the heat.
3. Place the jar in a large pot of water and boil constantly for 4 to 5 hours.
4. Strain the juice through a coarse hair sieve. 
5. If you wish for the jelly to be very sweet, then for every pint of juice add 1 lb of brown sugar. Half that quantity if it is to be eaten with meat.
6. Add the whites of 8 eggs to every gallon of juice.
7. Skim it and boil till nearly half eveaporated.
8. Put it in glasses and keep them in the sun until sufficiently thick.
9. A very good jelly may be made to eat with meat, by using salt, pepper, mace, and nutmeg instead of sugar.

Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Wesley Goldstein
Louisiana Anthology
July 15, 2022