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Old December 21, 2009   #18
LoreD
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A woman I know tried a recipe for spaghetti sauce that her great grandmother made. The recipe told her to put in two cups of sugar, she thought it was a little much, but she put in anyway and ended up with a sickly sweet mess.

She said she felt a little better when I told her that most of the older varieties were usually tart. Another woman said she had seen her grandmother eating tomatoes with mayonnaise and sugar because the tomatoes she had grown up with were so tart.

I tried a few varieties that were supposed to be very old varieties and was really underwhelmed. They were completely inedible if they weren't cooked.

It is my understanding that sweetness was bred into the modern tomatoes so many of the really old varieties would not match modern tastes.

LoreD
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