How to pickle tomatoes for the winter in the barrel

Board tomatoes are a great snack for vodka. With boiled crumbly potatoes and spicy herring such tomatoes also work unmatched. They differ from the beds that they can be quashed by natural fermentation.

Barrel tomatoes have a sharp taste, as if carbonated, that many really like. This sharpness appears if they salt them in oak barrels. But if it is not possible to purchase an oak barrel, it will completely come out with a lime or even ceramic. Any saline barrel prepare properly: Wash hot water with soda. Also, treat and wooden circle that will be attached to tomatoes. Prepare a piece of gauze, rolled in several layers, and this size so that the cloth covers the top layer of tomatoes.

Tomatoes for salting Choose medium size, dense and homogeneous bright red painting. If tomatoes are sorry without tails, then they will be ready in a month and a half, and if with tails, then in two or two and a half.

At the bottom of the barrels layer in 3-4 cm to put spicy herbs: umbrellas of dill and chrine leaves. Add 10 garlic teeth and a fourth part of the middle chili pepper. On the spices freely lay the washed tomatoes. After five rows of tomato, put the spices again. Depending on the height of the barrel, you can get 5-10 common layers. The most recent layer should be spices, while before the top of the barrels should remain free 15 cm - for laying a wooden mug and a foam exit, which will be formed during fermentation.

Prepare brine from 10 liters of spring cold water and 1 kg of stone non-iodized salt. Pour the tomatoes with brine, put on them cooked gauze, and on top there is a wooden circle to it, which should be smaller than the neck barrels. On the wooden circle, put any oppression (you can even a suitable can with canned cucumbers). And now it remains only to wait, when tomatoes in the barn ripe. Every 5-6 days you will need to go down to the basement, remove the rising foam and rinse a gauze napkin in clean warm water.

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No need to put any additional spices in barrel tomatoes, except those described above. A rich and rich taste of stray tomatoes is achieved due to natural fermentation and interrupt this yummy leaves of currant or tarhuna. Bon Appetit!