Name: Dried Tomatoes
Ingredients: ripe tomatoes; coarse sea salt

Dried Tomatoes

Ingredients

ripe tomatoes
coarse sea salt

Directions

Cut the ripe tomatoes in half.
Sprinkle a pinch of coarse sea salt on each cut surface.
Place the tomatoes on trays made of cheesecloth stretched over frames.
Elevate the trays a few feet above the ground.
Cover the trays each night or bring them indoors.
Dry the tomatoes in the sun for 8 to 10 days.
Once dried, pack them in wooden or tin vessels for storage.
To keep insects away, cover the tomatoes with mosquito-netting held a few inches above them.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.