"Sheldon" > wrote in message
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> On Aug 11, 4:19?pm, blake murphy > wrote:
>> On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 02:58:29 GMT, "The Joneses" >
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>> >"Sheldon" > wrote in message
>> oups.com...
>> >> On Aug 10, 3:34?pm, "Kswck" > wrote:
>> >>> Is there a definitive site you all use for information on canning
>> >>> tomato
>> >>> sauce?
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>> >>> Usually, I just grind the tomatoes and make sauce and freeze it in
>> >>> gallon
>> >>> bags. I want to try canning the juice/sauce rather than adding all
>> >>> the
>> >>> ingredients for sauce, cooking it down and freezing it.
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>> >>> I would think that you must cook down the juice for a bit and then
>> >>> can.
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>> >>> One other question-can one spice the juice, say with onion and
>> >>> garlic,
>> >>> before canning or is there a real problem with botulism with garlic?
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>> >>> I usually do around 2 bushels-want to expand to 4 or 5. I do have an
>> >>> industrial size electric grinder (50 bushels in 8 hours-or so say the
>> >>> literature it came with).
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>> >> You're much better off freezing tomato sauce, especially with large
>> >> quantities. Canning was popular before the advent of freezers, with
>> >> modern freezers canning can't hold a candle... freezing requires far
>> >> less work, far less space, and is far, FAR safer.
>> >> Sheldon
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>> >Until the lights go out. Or you want to mail some prize winning good
>> >stuff
>> >to your kinfolk. Canning is safe if you follow the rules. I can alot and
>> >freeze other things. Join us at rec.food.preserving, log on to your
>> >county
>> >extension site, visit the library. Very civilized places imho.
>> >Edrena
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>> also, most folks don't have a freezer that can accommodate sauce from
>> five bushels of tomatoes.
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> Only an selfish asshole would keep more than they can use in a year...
> one bushel of tomatoes makes a year's supply (about 30 quarts). I
> give away extra tomatoes.
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I give most of what I make away as well. Most years I am eating the last of
waht I made about when it's time to make more.