So many tomatoes!
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Carol Dee
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Can't wait to see the ideas. We have 40 quarts in the freezer and MANY more on the vine. (Why did we plant 16 of them?) Looking for ways to use some more.
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lesa
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You sure can make ketchup. Check out the recipe in the ball canning book. We did it last year, and it turned out great. Did you make sauce?
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Yes! Ketchup!
And tomato paste.
Tomato sauce
tomato juice
Spaghetti
Lasagne
fancy pestos
omelettes
Reserve plenty of kitchen time Sec!
And tomato paste.
Tomato sauce
tomato juice
Spaghetti
Lasagne
fancy pestos
omelettes
Reserve plenty of kitchen time Sec!
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Or you could dry them and grind them into powder. The powder can be added to just about everything with good flavor but no big bites of tomato.
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I've canned tomatoes for 8 years now. Just started for this season. They are the EASIEST fruit to can. You don't add any water or sugar to measure. I boil water, dump the fruit in for ~ 15-20 seconds to scald the skin, use a slotted spoon to remove them, let set until cool, to remove their skins, then boil on "warm" in a crock pot while I get my hot water canner water hot and ready. The books saw that they take 15 minutes to seal, but I usually set the timer for 25 minutes.
I have also cold canned my tomatoes and put them in my hot water canner in COLD water, then started the heat that way. Either way works bc they are high acid food and don't easily spoil. I have used jars that were 5 years old before and passed the sniff test.
You just don't put hot in cold or cold into hot water, or else your jars will break.
EVERY jar I open later tastes the same as when I picked them off of the vine.
I have also cold canned my tomatoes and put them in my hot water canner in COLD water, then started the heat that way. Either way works bc they are high acid food and don't easily spoil. I have used jars that were 5 years old before and passed the sniff test.
You just don't put hot in cold or cold into hot water, or else your jars will break.
EVERY jar I open later tastes the same as when I picked them off of the vine.
the1honeycomb
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Salsa!!
juice,
paste,
sauce,
feed to your chickens!
good luck and you are lucky to get that many tomatoes I love volunteers
juice,
paste,
sauce,
feed to your chickens!
good luck and you are lucky to get that many tomatoes I love volunteers
Jared77
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Salsa, chili base, pizza sauce, soup, just to name a few. I plant a ton of maters and we eat them all.
seedcorn
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Wish I could say that. Thanks to supplementing my gravel with Black Label Zinc, I have cut back from 50 to 36. Next year, may cut back some more. So I give tons away (no complaint on that) but still have too many rot.Jared77 said:
