Lynchburg Virginian

From the Southern Planter and Family Lyceum.

TOMATOES PRESERVE.

Mr Editor :--The tomato is favorably mentioned in your last number : it is a valuable vegetable. But I do not recollect, that in the variety of uses to which it has been applied, your paper assigns it any place among the different species of preserves As we are deprived this season of that pride of the fruit of Georgia, the peach, it may be of service to housekeepers to know that the tomato forms a most admirable substitute for the peach, as a preserve. The flavor is almost precisely the same -it looks as well, and is altogether an excellent article for the tea table

Directions--Take good ripe tomatoes -peel them and preserve them with good brown or loaf sugar. Not peeled they burn s, and do not retain the consistency so much desired by housekeepers, though they are very good without peeling I give you this, at this time, that the industry of the fair hands about your flourishing town, may profit by it, before Jack Frost shall cut off their hopes from this new source of table ornament and luxury,

Yours, &c

SWETT TOOTH

P. S. Those who live in towns will at all times find this a cheap substitute for peach, as the latter cost something.

Remember "a penny saved is a penny gained."