Annie: your white tomatoes?
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Annie ... is this your final Salsa recipe????
Comments (13)It would depend on the recipe. I hate to give that answer since I know it's not terribly helpful but some fruit relishes, for example, are primarily high-acid ingredients while vegetable relishes are low-acid. The same would be true of sauces and chutneys, etc. That's why you so often see recipes posted on the Forum with questions about whether certain ingredients can be eliminated, increased, etc. You do have some latitude to play around with things. Take your question about the heat of a salsa. Let's say the recipe called for 1 cup of sweet red pepper and 1/4 cup of hot peppers. You want it hotter and you aren't so crazy about sweet reds. The total amount of peppers is 1 1/4 cup, so you could have 3/4 cup of sweet reds and 1/2 cup of hot peppers. The total amount of low-acid veggies is the same. The important thing is you haven't changed the proportions of the recipe. Also be sure you don't change the preparation. Safe-tested recipes allow for some variation. For example, if the recipe says "chopped peppers" not everyone will chop the pieces the same size. But if you ground those peppers up instead, then a cup of ground peppers is a lot more by weight than a cup of chopped peppers. So, again, you've altered the proportions of the recipe and increased the ratio of low-acid vegetables. That can be risky. Or, as you suggested, you could add a good tablespoon or whatever of hot red pepper flakes. Just as you could adjust any other seasonings - less cumin, more peppercorns, etc. As long as the seasonings are dried, not fresh herbs. Carol...See MoreAnnie, about your salsa...
Comments (4)Cookie, I've used all kinds of tomatoes, the yellow ones, the red ones, Aunt Ruby's German Green, striped ones, Cherokee purple, whatever I have. It's all good. A lot of people don't peel the tomatoes at all, even the big ones, but I'm funny about texture and don't like the peel in there. As for the sugar, it's all a matter of taste. My girls like things a bit sweeter, probably because they've grown up with that high fructose corn syrup in every darned thing. Cut it down as you like. Happy canning. Annie...See MoreCarol/Annie/Linda lou-question on Multiuse Tomato Sauce
Comments (3)You're fine with the recipe as written. That's an Ellie Topp recipe (She develops for Bernardin also.) and there's enough acid already with the red wine and the red wine vinegar. If you want to pressure can, as Annie said, there's no reason not to. Just follow the usual procedures: vent time+processing time+wait time and use the boiling water bath time to process at 10 or 11 psi (weight or gauge). If anything, it will be even more foolproof that way. I haven't made that sauce the last couple of years. And this year we have almost no garden thanks to cold weather and lack of bees, so it looks like it won't be happening this season either. Sigh. Carol...See MoreHomage to Annie's tomatoes
Comments (6)L, I think those are actually "Great White". Mother also says they are the best tomatoes she's ever tasted, and she saved the seeds from the original one I grew, so I just keep saving the seeds. Unfortunately, mine didn't do so well this year, none of my tomatoes did, but that white tomato is one of my favorites and makes awesome soup with some red sweet peppers, very yummy. The dark yellow one looks like Lemon Boy or Lemon Girl, one of Amanda's favorite tomatoes, also very delicious, mild and sweet. Anyway, I'm glad you liked them! Partymusic, that white tomato was extremely prolific here in Michigan, I got baskets full from just 6 plants last year. This year they were prolific too, but first my tomatoes got a fungus from the cold/wet spring. I got that under control and the hornworms ate them right down to stalks. As they came back and just started ripening, we started getting rains and so they split. (sigh) Not just the Great White, all the tomatoes, even my old standby Rutgers, struggled here. Most farm markets don't even have canning tomatoes available. I didn't get a single Mortgage Lifter or Pineapple, I got a handful of Peach, three Indigo Rose. The Sungolds just died. Two tomatoes from Taxi and enough from Rutgers to can 16 quarts so far, and about half a dozen of those Great White, by far the most successful of my heirlooms other than old faithful Rutgers. Annie...See Morecarolb_w_fl_coastal_9b
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