Would like receipe for peserveing(with canning) homemade spaghetti sauce?

Question

I have lots of tomatoes from my garden and would like to make my own sauce, not sure how to preserve by using canning. not sure what to do

Answer 1

My granny has a garden and we can spaghetti sauce eeeeevery summer. You'll need glass jars, lids, large pot of boiling water, hand towels, a funnel, salad tongs ,and you'll also need the spaghetti sauce to be boiling.

We use old jelly jars with metal lids, old salsa jars, and new mason jars with the special lids. Wash them out very well and boil them for 15 minutes. You'll need the spaghetti sauce to be boiling as well so your jars don't crack from the temperature difference.

Using salad tongs, pull out a glass jar (pour out any water), put the funnel on top. Pour sauce until about an inch below the rim, remove one boiling hot lid, twist it 1/2 way and let it set. In about an hour or so, you'll hear "POP!" and that means your lid has sealed. We do this at night and then check them the next morning. Press in the poppy thing in the middle to make sure they're sealed. If any didn't seal, store them in the fridge and use them first.

For a recipe, you can pretty much flavor it 100 ways. Sometimes we use hot italian sausage to make meat sauce.

Basically, wash & peel the tomatoes (the peels come off and have a nasty texture in the sauce). Heat up your pot/pan. Add a few tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil to the bottom, then add any onions, celery, peppers, etc. Add the tomatoes & cook until tender & "saucy". But you're not done yet! You need to add sugar so the sauce isn't bitter, salt, pepper, italian seasonings, garlic, etc. Season it to your liking and taste it as you go along.

Answer 2

Sterilize glass jars and their lids, and whilst the jars are still hot fill with your sauce. Put on lids, wipe clean and invert.

The hot sauce will sterilize the lids also.

Note with tomatoes the acid can affect some tin lids, so use plastic ones.

Allow to cool and refrigerate.  

Answer 3

www.allrecipes.com or www.barillaus.com

Answer 4

Here you go!  :)

http://canningusa.com/IfICanYouCan/Tomat...

I just picked one at random, but Canning USA has a ton of other tomato recipes.  :)