Canning tomatoes

TexasTracy 6/29/2013, 3:26 pm

Is there any way to save the tomatoes that I have already harvested until I get enough to can?

**camprn** 6/29/2013, 3:33 pm

TexasTracy wrote:Is there any way to save the tomatoes that I have already harvested until I get enough to can?

Skin 'em and freeze what you have until you have enough to break out the kettle. Do you know how to peel the tomatoes?

CapeCoddess 6/29/2013, 3:34 pm

I'd throw them in the freezer, whole, in a plastic grocery bag.

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**Turan** 6/29/2013, 3:40 pm

If at all possible I bake them down before freezing, I think the flavor is better. Last year when I realized the freezer was a little too full for fall butchering I then took out a lot of bags of roasted tomatoes. I ran them through the food processor semi frozen. Heated up. Packed into jars and hot water bath canned. I put a teaspoon of lemon or wine vinegar into the jars to make sure it was still acidic enough. It made heavenly spaghetti sauce.

**Turan** 6/29/2013, 3:42 pm

The frozen tomatoes are really easy to skin as they thaw. But I like the skin and when I realized that I was only skinning tomatoes from tradition I quit and no one has ever noticed.

**camprn** 6/29/2013, 3:43 pm

Turan wrote:If at all possible I bake them down before freezing, I think the flavor is better. Last year when I realized the freezer was a little too full for fall butchering I then took out a lot of bags of roasted tomatoes. I ran them through the food processor semi frozen. Heated up. Packed into jars and hot water bath canned. I put a teaspoon of lemon or wine vinegar into the jars to make sure it was still acidic enough. It made heavenly spaghetti sauce.

+1 Last year the tomatoes that I roasted before putting up had tremendous flavor.

TexasTracy 6/29/2013, 3:46 pm

I have a recipe for oven roasted tomatoes so I guess I can do that and then freeze until I have enough to can. Awesome, thanks!

Crs1 6/29/2013, 3:58 pm

How do you roast tomatoes? thinking

CapeCoddess 6/29/2013, 4:31 pm

Crs1 wrote:How do you roast tomatoes?

Crs1, go look in the thread "This is tomato heaven". Quiltbea just posted an awesome looking recipe!

CC

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