HOME-CANNING SPAGHETTI O'S

At first I just quickly canned the picked garden tomatoes until I had them coming out my ears. Then, the next year I decided to branch out and make easier recipes that were ready to eat like the following Spaghetti O's soup recipe. That was so successful the next year I branched out again and make up a pizza recipe ready to use when needed. That was quickly used up and never enough stored. I was on to something... and continued to collect more such canning home recipes. Here's one was my children’s favorite. When they got home from school they wanted spaghetti-O soup. That’s what they name it because I canned it with sometimes some alphabets noodles or round spaghetti O's. I never had any left-overs for the next year so I had to replace them ever year after. It's nice to blend some of the tomatoes in a blender or food processor however, it pleasant to have some cut into very small chunks, not to many or big. The children will not like them. This is of course optional.
Spaghetti- Or Spaghetti O’ Soup
About 10 quarts tomatoes (Measure it out with qt. canning jars after you've blended the garden fresh organic tomatoes. (Also, you can use up your old canning jars plain tomatoes.)
1 cup chopped celery (or equivalent; celery seeds-1 tbs for some tastes?)
3 chopped onions
4 chopped green peppers
4 Tbs. salts
3 bay leaves (take out afterwards and is optional)
8 Tbs. sugar or 4 tbs. honey (agave, or Stevia for diabetics)
1 tsp. pepper
Herb of choice (just a bit of some chopped curly parsley or basil?) or any herb out of your garden is nice for a rich flavor and a tiny bit of green in the bottle. Use whatever herb you grew....
While cool mix with 14 Tbs. flour or/and 4 Tbs. cornstarch and delude in a small amount of water to easily add to the tomatoes.
*Last minute add some butter to taste (I added quite a bit for flavor, but optional)
Lastly, just before processing add round small round uncooked macaroni’s (must process immediately) or, (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 pantry after school and heated it up this ready-made soup to eat. None was left for the winter.
These are more "method" recipes, spice them to suit your family need and likes. In a hurry keep Italian Seasoning on hand and sub. in this recipes. Myself I've change the recipe to what I have on hand as you can see. Don't do all the herbs or seasoning at one time. Choose one.
* The small round spaghetti Os's come in very small packages. They go on sale one a year so keep your eye out for them and buy up. You can sub the pin wheels. Don't get too carried away on the macaroni's. I found the children like it more soupy with Cheetos's as a garnishment.  You really can't make too much of this soup...it will go first and not last long if you do a good job.
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