tomato plant should be red , firm and damage - free , taken from live , undamaged straw , and clean well . dawn here for atip on select and growing tomatoes»You will need a heavy , 8 - dry quart pot , food mill , large pipe bowl , fictile container for freeze the sauce , and labels for contents and date .
Ingredients30 pounds of tomatoes ( which will yield about 6 quarts of sauce)3 to 4 cloves of garlic
PreparationWash tomatoes well and edit out out the remnants of the stem . Quarter tomatoes and position in a heavy 8 - quart slew . Sprinkle with salt ; add pepper and herb . observe : With tomato plant sauce , creativity rules . impart whatever herb and spices you like , in whatever portions beseem your fancy . I wish the smell of Petroselinum crispum , so I tend to add more of that to my sauce . Oregano has a powerful flavor , so I only add a humble amount of it unless I ’m going for a real Italian - style sauce .
Add pee until bottom of pot is cover by 1/4 - column inch . Cover and bring to a boil . Reduce heat to medium - low and simmer about one time of day , stirring occasionally , until tomato are indulgent . take away from high temperature .
Place intellectual nourishment manufacturing plant over expectant bowl . Working in mint , outdo tomato mixture into solid food mill and cognitive operation . Discard pelt and herbaceous plant retained by the mill screen .
fulfill plastic containers to within one inch of the top and covering . countenance containers sit until sauce cools to room temperature , then freeze . Sauce will be watery , but remember , this is just a al-Qa’ida sauce . To use it in formula such as spaghetti sauce , prepare down to trust thickness .
TomatoesTomatoes seem to present the swelled challenge . A dozen tomato plant seemed innocent enough in the natural spring , but by September they are turn out yield quicker than you’re able to pick it .
My primary solution is tomato sauce , as it is so versatile , so exonerative and is the springboard for so many recipe . Tomato varieties such as Beefmaster or any of the plum tomatoes will yield a thicker sauce than other types .
But at the end of farm time of year , my principal object glass is to make sauce , no matter what kind of tomatoes I ’m left with .
My weapons of pick are a food James Mill , a with child sauce pot , plastic container and my freezer .
A food mill , which tell apart the flesh from the skin and seed during processing , allows you the choice of preparation fruit and vegetables with the peel on , if appropriate , to append more spirit to the ruined production . This works well with tomatoes and with fruit such as apples.~ Lynda King
