8/06/2011 Extra - Bottled Spaghetti Sauce

This was my very first attempt at bottling my own food. I got this 25 lb. box of roma tomatoes as one of the 'extras', and added a few of my garden tomatoes to make an even 30 lbs.

My husband and I did the dip-in-boiling-water method to take off the skin, then sliced them horizontally to remove the seeds. We thought this would take us two hours. It took ten.

We cooked the tomato chunks for several hours with seasonings and red wine vinegar in place of lemon juice. I combined three recipes I found on line, but I haven't tried the post-bottle product yet, so I'm not posting the recipe. It tasted delicious in the pot, though!

Now we've got 16 pint jars of homemade spaghetti sauce. Woohoo!