On Your Table: Savoring the last of summer, preserving your tomatoes
By Cathy Branciaroli, Food Correspondent , The Times
Tomato jam is a wonderful way of making summer tomatoes last longer.
If you’re like me you’ve been pampering garden tomatoes all summer, and guess what, now they’re all coming to harvest. What to do? I love to eat them like apples with a little salt sprinkled on. But really – what can one do to preserve this bountiful harvest?
Here’s how...
Victory announces bottling of Harvest ale
DOWNINGTOWN — Victory Brewing Company announced the arrival of Harvest Ale, its first wet-hopped ale to be bottled. To brew this unique ale, Victory had a whopping six tons of fresh hops hauled in refrigerated trucks from Yakima Valley, WA to its breweries in Downingtown and Parkesburg.
Fresh-off-the-vine hop cones are susceptible to mold and the spoiling effects of oxygen due to the full moisture...