Just as with tomato sauce or any other tomato-based recipe, many feel a mix of varieties provides the very best flavor. Whether you would like the resulting flavor or not only you can tell. Taste is personal but there is no reason at all why all sorts of varieties can't be used.

As to using ones from the fridge, given that the majority of the flavor with tomato jam comes from the spices and given that Glacier is sure not known for its flavor anyway I can't see how you'd have anything to lose by using them.

Dave

Thanks - Glacier tastes better than store tomatoes, and better than chilled tomatoes. But I think everything is off this year. I finally ate my 1st Pink Brandywine and it wasn't bad with salt, I don't know whether it was b/c I picked it at break and let it ripen on the counter (after the 1st one rotted on the vine), or if it was all the rain this month, but it didn't taste as good as last year's German Johnsons, or even the Big Boys.

At least I can put my cousin's tomatoes to use (besides chicken food). Any suggestions for the week-old pickling cukes? We're not relish eaters.

Thanks

not to sound stupid - but what is a refrigerator tomato?

A Refrigerator tomato is a tomato that has been kept in the refrigerator.

Tomatoes should not be stored in the fridge.