"Default User" > schreef in bericht
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> Jke wrote:
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>> "biig" > schreef in bericht
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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??
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>> > Thanks......Sharon
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>> In my part of the world, those 2 kinds of canned tomatoes ARE
>> different. The calorie count is different (crushed is higher), which
>> leads me to suspect there's less juice and more solids in a can of
>> crushed tomatoes.
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> Whole tomatoes are typically packed in tomato juice, crushed tomatoes
> in "puree", actually reconstituted tomato paste.
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Good to knowo. It helps to expain the very high sodium content the puree in
my cupboard has. Too high for most of my cooking purposes, as I recently
discovered. Back to the cans