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Saturday, August 20, 2011

Tomato Garden Juice Blend

This is wonderful, and was my canning project yesterday. You will never buy another bottle of V-8. I will bet money that not one of you will make it. That's okay, I'll think about you every time I open a jar.

Tomato Garden Juice Blend
about 14 pints or 7 quarts
print recipe

22 pounds garden fresh tomatoes
1 cup diced carrots
1 cup chopped celery
a cup chopped green pepper
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/4 cup chopped parsley
1 tablespoon salt (optional)
Bottled lemon juice

Wash tomatoes; drain. Remove core and blossom ends. Cut into quarters. Combine tomatoes and vegetables in a large saucepot; simmer 20 minutes, stirring to prevent sticking. Juice tomatoes in a food processor or food mill. Strain juice to remove peels and seed. Stir in salt, if desired. Heat juice 5 minutes at 190 degrees F. DO NOT BOIL. Add 1 tablespoon bottled lemon juice to each pint jar, 2 tablespoons bottled lemon juice to each quart jar. Ladle hot juice into hot jars, leaving 1/4-inch headspace. Adjust two-piece caps. Process pints 35 minutes, quarts 40 minutes, in boiling-water canner.

3 comments:

  1. I have several friends making tomato juice here lately. It is that time of year!

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  2. you are my hero!!! Is there anything you don't make,

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  3. Ha Ha You bet money that no one makes it. You win with me. I have never seen that many tomatoes except at a farmers' market. And we are drinking a lot of V8 Splash here, but everytime I drink some regular V8, I will dream of your homemade juice and how pretty it must look and how fresh it must taste.

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