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Default Crushed tomatoes/whole canned tomatoes



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

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> It was the amount of puree that did it.
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> Thanks a bunch for all the answers. I don't use tomatoes in many recipes, but since so many people were raving about that recipe, I wanted to try it. Just didn't have any idea that crushed would be more concentrated than whole.....slapping my forehead....duh.... thanks again

.......Sharon