Annie's Salsa Recipe and Notes 2012
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Comments (108)Charcuterie, I've made this recipe many times and the amount I get varies from about six pints to about eight pints. I think it probably depends mostly on how watery the tomatoes are. Roma tomatoes are usually very meaty, and the fact that you got less than eight cups from 5 1/2 pounds suggests yours were quite meaty (I usually find about four pounds gives about eight cups). So my guess is that the liquid from the canned diced tomatoes is what made it have so much volume. If you had added more fresh tomatoes, they would have cooked down. Since the tomatoes you added were canned they were already cooked down, so they wouldn't have shrunk as much in cooking, if you see what I mean. I do think your salsa should be safe to eat. The added extra peppers is actually the one thing that goes against standard safety recommendations---peppers are a low-acid food, so if you have more peppers total compared to tomatoes than a recipe is tested for, you don't know for sure that it's acidic enough. But those cans of peppers in adobe are small, and you added extra acid, AND I know that Annie's recipe has a generous margin of error of extra acid. So while the standard answer is "you should never change anything in a tested recipe," I know that I, personally, would feel very happy eating your salsa. I'll be right over, in fact. ;-p Good luck, Zabby...See MoreHelp - I lost my notes on Annie's Salsa!
Comments (5)Thanks, Annie! I didn't have quite enough tomatoes from our garden so I had to supplement with some from the farm market. I'm hoping the next batch will be all home grown but we just couldn't wait that long. We've been salsa free for two months. Yikes! Carol, you read my mind. Those notes will pop up the second I pack up the canner. :)...See MoreSalsa safety question
Comments (7)I used the large type tomatoes (probably Early Girl and Fantastic) and blanched, peeled, cored, and seeded them. They were still pretty juicy so I drained them too. The recipe did not call for removing the seeds and pulp nor did it call for draining %%%%%%%%%%%% specific gravity (density ) of tomato is very close to 1 (Like water), because they are bette tan 90% water. considering the other ingredients (onions, bell peppers, tomato paste) your tomato selection and processing should have negligible effect and if any, it could be over come by adding a few minutes to processing time. But when you remove seeds, skin, core, actually you are reducing the density more than increasing it by taking some juice out. Calling thing like pepper, tomato , etc "SOLID" is erroneous, in my opinion because they are more than 90% water. So the heat penetration/transfer/conductivity is not much different from any apparent liquid....See MoreAnnie’s salsa recipe
Comments (4)Thanks, cookebook and mamapinky, I've been busy canning and just haven't been here earlier in the evenings any more. cookebook, that's the best version, it's extremely detailed and has all the notes! I did not have enough tomatoes to make salsa this year, or even can any plain tomatoes, but I did have peaches and so I canned 34 pints of salsa made with peaches in place of most of the tomatoes, and using last year's canned tomatoes for the tomato portion. It's pretty good and my son-in-law loves it, wants it every year instead of the original stuff, LOL. Happy canning, agmss! Annie...See MoreRelated Professionals
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