Summer 2022 was not as productive in our garden as we would have liked due to late frosts and freezes and draught late. We planted about twenty different tomato plants, Mr. Stripey, San Marazano and some Virginia sweets. They didn’t produce like they normally do but I did get enough to can 15 jars of Mr. Stripey. They are normally a very large yellow with red streaks and very little acid. Neither of us can tolerate the acid in tomatoes but these do the trick.
I don’t use a lot of canned tomatoes except in soup, but I do like to have barbecue sauce, pasta sauce and pizza sauce on hand. A few weeks ago, I brought the fifteen pints of canned tomatoes out of the cellar and made pasta sauce.
It’s really simple to make using Mrs. Wages Pasta sauce mix. I poured all of the tomatoes in a large stainless-steel pot; added some finely diced onions and pressed garlic cloves, salt and pepper and heated to boiling. I stirred it several times to make sure the tomatoes didn’t stick. Then I ran it through my food mill into another stainless-steel pot. From here I followed the instructions on the Mrs. Wages envelope which meant pouring the package into the pot of strained juice and put it back on the stove stirring frequently and letting it cook down until it was the perfect thickness. This left me with ten perfect and delicious jars of pasta sauce.
Living the Country Life My Way 