TOMATO JUICE - CANNING
Ok...Here's THE recipe for canning tomato juice that doesn't separate. Just like store bought tomato juice. The trick is to bring the juice to a rolling boil again AFTER you have run it through your food mill. I usually juice around 2-3 bushels of tomatoes per year. In order to get that 'Store Bought' consistency, mix your tomatoes 50/50 roma and regular. So I always buy a bushel of romas and a bushel of regular. This year we bought 2 bushels each and have lots of juice for the year. This recipe should yield around 15 quarts/litres in general.
Provided by Axe1678
Categories Vegetable
Time 4h
Yield 30 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 2
Steps:
- Core and peel tomatoes (Often, the day before, I will wash and core the tomatoes and freeze them first. Then just dunk them in a sink full of hot water and the peel falls right off). UPDATE: This year I didn't even bother to peel them, just core them and continue. The peel will come out in step 4.
- Place the tomatoes in a large stock pot and as you fill it, bring them to a rolling boil, stirring regularly (They will burn if you don't). I usually squish the first few with a potato masher to cover the bottom of the stock pot with liquid in order to get the boiling process kick started.
- Sterilize your jars (I do this in the dishwasher).
- Once you have all your tomatoes in the stock pot and boiling up a storm, ladle them into your food mill and grind out the mixture into pots, scraping the good stuff off the sides of the cone into your juice.
- Throw out the remaining pulp and return the juice to the stock pot.
- Bring back to a rolling boil.
- Add salt. (I usually add 1 tsp to each litre/quart). This is optional of course.
- Pour into jars leaving 1/2 inch air space.
- Place jars into canner and boil for 25 minutes.
- DONE!
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TOMATO JUICE FOR CANNING
Make and share this Tomato Juice for Canning recipe from Food.com.
Provided by Diana Adcock
Categories Beverages
Time 1h30m
Yield 1 recipe
Number Of Ingredients 3
Steps:
- Here's a quote from Bernardin. "Any amount of tomatoes can be used.
- An average of 3-3 1/2 pounds of tomatoes are needed to make 1 quart of juice. A bushel of tomatoes-53 pounds-will make from 15-18 quarts of juice.
- A bushel of tomatoes-53 pounds-will make from 15-18 quarts of juice.
- To acidify the tomato juice add: 1 T. bottled lemon juice per pint jar or 2 T. per quart jar.
- Salt is optional but makes it taste better--1/2 t. per pint or 1 t. per quart.".
- So wash and cut up tomatoes 2 Cups at a time add to a large stainless pot and crush, all the while bringing to a boil.
- (I would be using a food processor at this point).
- When all tomatoes are crushed maintain a boil for 5 minutes, stirring constantly.
- Press tomato pulp through a fine sieve or food mill.
- Return to pot and heat to boiling.
- Prepare the jars and ladle in hot juice leaving 1/2 inch head space-wipe-seal and process in a boiling water bath, 35 minutes for pints and 40 minutes for quarts at altitudes up to 1000 feet.
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