Tomato Jam

[Zenbaas]

Originally Posted by Worth1

Yep pretty much the same products.
I have asked dozens of people from the northern or western US and they have sworn they have no idea what this stuff is and have never heard of any of it.
Not even molasses or dark treacle as you would call it.

What happened?

Worth

I grew up on Lyles syrup but also got a mouth full of molasses every morning from my mom because it is "good" for you It's a taste you never really forget.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Zenbaas

I grew up on Lyles syrup but also got a mouth full of molasses every morning from my mom because it is "good" for you It's a taste you never really forget.

Molasses is a super food and should be part of everyone's daily intake.
Three of the things I got to eat and drink when growing up was red wine coffee and molasses.
Our well water was high in minerals like iron and calcium.
We ate cold tomatoes and macaroni almost every day of the year.
My after school snack was a hot pepper and jam sandwich, every day.
After that I would go outside and split wood for the stove while my mom and dad fed the rabbits, pigs and chickens.
Then it was off with my dad to feed the cows while my mother cooked supper.

Then there was the jam and preserve trading that went on.
We might put up 50 pints of tomato preserves but only eat 25.
The other 25 would be traded for something we didn't put up or do like wine or something else.
It wasn't even what you would call a trade it was more like a giving.
You would give and you would get something back later.

Worth