Nancy Young wrote:

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>>Nancy Young wrote:
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>>>So, I'm making my own. V8, Worchestershire, Tabasco,
>>>pepper, sometimes celery seed, but it annoys me.
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>>Celery salt, rather than celery seed (who wants *seeds* in their drink?).
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> That's the thing, celery seeds get in my teeth and are annoying. But,
> since I usually use V8, it's already so salty ... but then so is tomato
> juice,
> no?

Commercial tomato juice tends to be too salty for my tastes. Last year
I made my first batch of homemade tomato juice. In homecanning the salt
can be omitted in most recipes so I omit it. I was so pleased with the
resulting tomato juice, I'm going to make double the amount of it this year.

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>>add more hot sauce. Lots of people swear by clam juice. Why clam juice
>>came into the picture I don't know. I adore clam soup but not with
>>tomatoes
>>and certainly not in my bloody mary's!
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> Heh, no clams in my bloody mary, uh uh.
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> nancy
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