{"id":6159,"date":"2014-11-16T21:50:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T02:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/?p=6159"},"modified":"2019-06-07T13:38:46","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:38:46","slug":"my-first-attempt-at-canning-tomatoes-is-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/my-first-attempt-at-canning-tomatoes-is-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"My first attempt at canning tomatoes is a success"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a chilly, grey November day, and summer tomatoes are long gone.
\nBut thanks to a recent day spent in the kitchen, I’m making spaghetti sauce tonight from local, late summer tomatoes.
\nJohn and I began hosting monthly spaghetti suppers in September last year<\/a>, and making homemade sauce is one of my jobs for the night. I’ve experimented with various canned tomatoes<\/a> and honed my recipe (based very loosely on the foundation of Frankie’s<\/a>). Though my technique improves with practice, spaghetti nights in the summer, when tomatoes are at their tasty peak, feature some of the most delicious sauce.
\nSince I love eating local and supporting local farms<\/a>, I decided to try canning tomatoes at the end of this year’s harvest.\u00a0I’ve tried pickling once before and it worked, but I’m still a rookie with this whole operation.
\nI rolled my neighbor’s shopping cart to farmers market and bought 50 pounds of tomatoes. That’s five fully loaded plastic grocery bags of tomatoes. According to the Ball canning recipe<\/a>, about three pounds of tomatoes go into\u00a0each quart, so I bought two dozen canning jars and figured I’d have several leftover.
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\"tomatoes
This is 50 pounds of tomatoes, grown by Phillips Farms in New Jersey, just rolled home from farmers market.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nMy friend Sara, also a canning novice, came over to share in the project. She smashed tomatoes into jars while I managed the boiling water bath that sterilizes and seals the jars.
\n
\"Washing
Washing the tomatoes to get them ready for canning<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\n
\"Before
Before canning, you have to boil the tomatoes for a few minutes, called blanching, to peel the skin off. They also have to be cored.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\n
\"My
My canning pot can fit six quart jars at a time. Once they’re filled, they sit in boiling water for 45 minutes to sterilize and seal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nHere’s the math:\u00a0I spent $80 on tomatoes and about $32 on canning jars\u00a0to end\u00a0up with 23\u00a0quarts, which makes them just under $5 each in materials. That’s not counting all day of my time or several hours of help from Sara<\/span>. <\/span>
\nBut it’s hard to put a price on the feeling of opening a jar of local tomatoes that I wheeled home from farmers market myself, and making homemade spaghetti sauce with tomatoes I know include nothing but salt, lemon juice and love.
\n
\"The
The final product: 23 quarts of home-canned tomatoes<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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