Thursday, September 6, 2012

Tomato Days 2012 - Paste, Sauce, Taco Sauce



131 lbs tomatoes total  (~25-30 lbs per 5 gallon bucket of romas)
It took around 7 hours to get all of the tomatoes washed, seeded, cooked down, run through the food mill and back into the pot to cook down.
We made 7 pints of sauce (thickened tomatoes, nothing added)
We made 32.5 jam jars of paste
And, 25 jam jars of taco sauce.

Taco Sauce:
3 qts sauce
3 cups cider vinegar
3/4 cup sugar
3 Tbs kosher salt
3 tsp cayenne pepper
6 Tbs chile powder
2 tsp Frank's Red Hot
1 Tbs ancho chile powder
1 Tbs smoked Spanish Paprika
1 Tbs cumin
1 Tbs garlic powder