On Saturday, March 13, 2021 at 8:26:40 AM UTC-10, Bruce wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Mar 2021 12:03:42 -0500, songbird >
> wrote:
> >Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >...
> >> I have a dim memory of canning tomatoes, and ISTR juice
> >> was needed anyway. So it's not a lot out of your way to can juice,
> >> too.
> >
> > it is a different process for us.
> >
> > when doing tomato chunks we scald the tomatoes to be able
> >to remove the skins and then core them and cut into chunks
> >removing any parts we don't want.
> To me, that sounds like cutting the crust of white bread. It's all
> perfectly edible.
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The Japanese like to cut off the crust in their sando. That's simply a refinement of food preparation/presentation. Their bread is made to do this. It's difficult to do this with Western bread because they're not baked in a square loaf.
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