On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:56:27 -0500, biig > wrote:

>
> I made a pot of the Beef Barley Soup that was posted here last week.
>I didn't have whole canned tomatoes, so substituted a can of crushed.
>The soup was waaaay too tomatoey. Is there that much difference in the
>tomato content? I added more beef broth and lots of sliced cabbage and
>that helped, but it still had too much tomato flavour for my taste.
>Anyone??
>
> Thanks......Sharon

It was the amount of puree that did it.

Crushed tomatoes contain pureed tomatoes as well as the tomato chunks.
Whole canned tomatoes don't have as much puree; some have tomato juice
instead of puree. In any case, a lot of the volume is inside the
whole tomatoes so there is less room in the can for the puree.

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