Sheldon Martin wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 09:00:30 -0800 (PST), Lenona >
> wrote:
>
>> I made about a gallon of spaghetti sauce last night and I'd say it tasted very good. Just the right amount of pepper, for one thing.
>>
>> The recipe called for 18 tomatoes. I only had cans of diced and crushed tomatoes.
>>
>> Here's the weird part. When I googled, it said that there are two large or three medium tomatoes per pound, which certainly sounds right. But...when I asked how many tomatoes are in a 28-oz. CAN, it said...TEN tomatoes!
>>
>> How can there be more than six?
>>
>> As it happened, I only checked after emptying three such cans, since I wasn't sure whether to add a fourth. (I didn't.)
>>
>> Another question. Since I don't have a pressure cooker - or much room in my freezer right now - I put it into glass mason jars, in the fridge. (Of course, one never puts a glass container into a freezer!) How long is it likely to last?
>>
>> Btw, the recipe says to add the tomato paste slowly, AFTER all the other ingredients have come to a boil.
>>
>> 6 onions
>> 3 green peppers
>> 3/4 cup vegetable oil
>> 18 tomatoes (skinned)
>> 2 minced garlic cloves
>> 1.5 Tbs. salt
>> 2 Tbs. sugar
>> 1 Tb. each oregano, basil, and thyme
>> 6 bay leaves
>> 30 oz. tomato paste
>>
>> Lenona.
>
> First thing I noticed is that 30 ounces of tomato paste... that's
> plenty to keep an Italian restaurant going for a weekend.
> I use canned tomatoes for sauce all the time, usually half whole
> skinned ones and half crushed. I have no reason to measure, I choose
> a pot the size I like for how much sauce I want and keep adding until
> it's full. I've tried using home grown Romas, wastes the tomatoes...
> by the time the water is reduced all you'll have is caramelized brown
> sludge and tastes nothing of tomato. Factories that reduce the liquid
> from tomatoes use the same method used for frozen OJ. Much too
> expensive for home use, they use a gigantic evaporation tower that
> sucks off the warmed water vapor by vacuum. How do yoose think
> Campbells makes their condensed soups. If your granny tells you hw
> she made tomato paste by simmering tomatoes all day she was lying,
> that's not possible, she bought canned.
>

And I bet yoose ****ed her granny too! Because granny had enormous
knockers, and lived on yoose paper route in 1950.