Pizza Sauce, Salsa, Spaghetti O’ Soup, Tomato Relish, Spaghetti Sauce, and Simple Basic Salsa Variety of simple canning techniques to canning organically garden grown tomatoes.
I loved planting tomatoes every year and had enough to last me for years with an acre of land and about 1/3 of it in garden. Then I discovered using tomatoes recipes in a way that it was ready to use, before it was fashionable. It wasn’t that difficult. I just did small batches each week. It was so much better than to just cold packing plain tomatoes, which no one ate and my storage got larger. I need the jar to redo a fresh supply but no one really seemed to use just a jar of tomatoes. These are the recipes using my tomatoes that got used and my family loved. For the gardener’s, I’ll pass on these recipes. Please feel free to add another herb or take out.
Pizza Sauce
3 quarts of puree tomatoes
Honey or sugar to taste (optional)
1/3-cup olive oil
4-5 cloves of garlic
Fresh chopped basil (by site) (parsley)
1 Tbs. Italian Seasoning (optional)
Salt and pepper
Mix: Oregano, Cumin, sweet Basil etc. or just use 1 Tbs. Italian Seasoning.
I just used the Italian Seasoning and Basil it’s simple and easy.
You can cook them down more with one jar at a time later. I had to work fast with all the tomatoes coming in all at once.
Process as you would tomatoes. (I cold-pack them. This process works out fine unless you add too much vegetable i.e.)
.....................................
Salsa
Moderately hot
Place 14 quarts of peeled and chopped red tomatoes in 12-quart pot. Add in 13 garlic’s to the pot. Add the next 5 ingredients through meat grinder, (course), food chopper etc., (don’t over chop it)
6 large onions
13 green peppers
7 green jalapenos (or another pepper you prefer)
4 yellow jalapenos
2 (7 oz.) cans of diced Ortega green chilies
Add:
3 tsp. Oregano, (parsley?)
1 Tbs. Cumin
14 tsp. sugar or 7 tsp. honey
5 T. salt
1 T. pepper
2 T. seasoned salt (or)
8 T. olive oil
9 T. vinegar
*Fruit to sweeten instead of sugar.
Boil 3-6 hours. Put into clean jars and seal. Process for 10 minutes. Makes 21 pints.
.......................................
The next one was my children’s favorite. When they got home from school they wanted spaghetti-O soup. That’s what they name it. I never had any left-overs for the next year and did more ever year.
Spaghetti- Or Spaghetti O’ Soup
10 quarts tomatoes
1 cup chopped celery or celery seeds
3 chopped onions
4 chopped green peppers
4 Tbs. salts
3 bay leaves (optional)
8 Tbs. sugar or 4 tbs. honey
1 tsp. pepper
Herb of choice out of garden is nice for a rich flavor.
While cool mix with 14 Tbs. flour or/and 4 Tbs. cornstarch
Last minute add some butter to taste (I added quit a bit) and lastly, before processing add round small macaroni’s (must process immediately) (A B C’s macaroni’s will work)
Cook 20-30 minutes
Process 15 minutes
This was so well like that the children went to the panty after school and heated it up the ready to eat recipe. None was left for the winter.
These are more method recipes, spice them to suit yourself and your family likes. In a hurry keep Italian Seasoning on hand and sub. in recipes.
............................................
Tomato Relish
Chop all finely and put into a large kettle:
30 Tomatoes
12 apples
10 onions
6 green chilies
Add: 2 Tb. salt, 1 tsp. pepper, 1 pt. red vinegar and ½ - 1 cups sugar. Depends on the tartness of apples. Cook 30 minutes or more until thickness you prefer. Spoon into bottles and seal. This is great on Pinto Beans.
Method: Variations can be done...
Spaghetti Sauce
1-peck tomatoes (8 qts. or ½ bushel)
4-8 Tbs. Honey
4 Tb. Salt (to your taste)
4-6 large onions
4 Tb. garlic powder or fresh cloves
4 Tbs. oregano
4 large bell peppers, chopped
4 Tb. Italian Seasoning or more
½ tsp. pepper (optional)
1 Tbs. cumin (use less if object able)
Add in your favorites herbs from the garden and take them out after you’ve gotten the flavors out of them like parsley etc.
I like the processing the peppers under the broiler on both sides, then sack in plastic sack and peeled. The results are tastier. But this is optional and if you have the time.
Boil down to consistency desired. Process 15 minutes. To thicken more add cornstarch with a little cool water, your meat, cheese, etc when ready to serve.
Simple Basic Salsa
15 or so jalapeno peppers, chopped
3 medium onion, chopped
18 large ripe chopped tomatoes
1-cup vinegar
3 tsp. salt
Mix in large pan and cook over low heat to desired consistency 2-3 hour. Don’t scorch. Process in water bath for 15 minutes in pint jars. Makes 5-6 pints.
By P.T. Sherman All publishing rights reserved!
No comments:
Post a Comment