Tomatoe Sauce Question for Sharon (Chase)

15 years ago

I picked up a bushel of tomatoes yesterday and I'm going to can your tomato sauce today. Can you tell me how much each one of these recipes yields in jars and what size jars?

Thanks!

Plain Italian Tomato Sauce

24 cups smooshed tomatoes whirred smoothish *

2 cups finely minced celery

2 cups finely minced onion

1 1/2 cups finely minced carrot (use just one for a bit less sweet I use 1 1/2)

12 TBSP bottles lemon juice

2 TBSP coarse salt

Note: For one batch I sub hot peppers for some of the carrot and celery, just so I have a piquante sauce as well.

Herbed Tomato Sauce

24 cups smooshed tomatoes whirred smoothish *

4 - 5 cups chopped herbs of your choice

12 TBSP bottled lemon juice

2 TBSP coarse salt.

I use Basil, oregano and parsley but you can use only one or two or three and you don't need to use equal amounts, in other words you can go 2/3 basil 1/3 parsley. For all of them bring to a rolling boil and then lower heat to a high simmer , you want to see some action but not a full boil. After coming to the boil a foam will form, skim it off.

Place your jars in the dishwasher , when the jars are done so is the sauce. I generally cook about an hour , you can go longer. I don't like to cook less than an hour 'cause I want some thickening to take place while canning so it doesn't need to much cook time when I use it.

Fill jars as normal. HWB for 30 minutes.

* I break the tomatoes with my hands and then use a hand blender to smooth some more. You could use a food processor. I do not seed my tomatoes but you could.

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User
15 years ago
I always do the recipes a bushel at a time and I get 20 quart jars from each bushel.

Here is what I have in my notes but so much depends on the size and juiciness of the tomatoes and it's just approximations.

A bushel will yield about 80 cups
1/4 bushel will yield about 20 cups

A bushel gives me approx 20 jars
1/4 bushel will make about 5 jars.

So roughly speaking I would get 6 quart jars to each of those recipes. Another way of looking at it is each quart holds 4 cups so 24 cups would yield 6 quart jars. Even with the added ingredients some of the juice boils down so 6 is likely a pretty good number.

Mind you you only have a bushel so hopefully you only get 5 jars from each recipe! LOL

I think Lee made the recipe using the amounts specified so maybe she will chirp in with some info.
lindac
15 years ago
The first recipe should yield 14 pints....if you measure your tomatoes after peeling and smooshing.
I figured the number of cups of ingredients and allowed 5 cups for evaporation.
Linda C
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gardengrl
Original Author
15 years ago
Thanks ladies....I was guessing around 12 pints, but wanted to know how many jars to prep. I'm not used to doing larger batches, but I'm in tomato country now (Virginia)!

Whooooo-hooooo!
lsr2002
15 years ago
I canned two small batches (1/4 of the recipe as posted) twice and got a total of 11 pints. I know that I cooked one batch down a lot more than other - got six pints out of one batch and five pints out of the other. It's all good! You can cook it down more or less. I hope that I am speaking correctly when I say that it is the ratio of ingredients that is important-the proportion of acid to other ingredients.

You will love Chase's canned tomatoes. I'm hoping to do more this year.

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gardengrl
Original Author
15 years ago
You were right Sharon; I got 5 quarts and one pint from one recipe yield (Herbed Sauce).

I have enough tomatoes to make a batch of Annie's Salsa tonight.
User
15 years ago
Great! Hope you like it, we do.

I'll warn you up front, depending on the tomatoes, the sauce can be a bit "watery" so may need some boiling down when you use it, or if it is thin I add some small amount of tomato paste. Other times the sauce is a perfect consistency out of the jar , depends on the tomatoes.

Smells wonderful , doesn't it! Tastes better!
gardengrl
Original Author
15 years ago
Another quick question...I added the lemon juice directly to the sauce with all the other ingredients and then cooked the sauce per the instructions.

Should I have added it to each jar before filling?
User
15 years ago
I put the lemon juice in at the start.....and I'm still here to talk about it! LOL
gardengrl
Original Author
15 years ago
Whooo! Thanks Sharon; the sauce is soooooooo yummy. Bring on the 'maters!

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