tomato sauce

Tomato Sauce Recipe

Wash and remove the cores of 25 pounds of tomatoes. (a sauce tomato like a roma is best.)

Cut up 2 ½ to 3 pounds of onions

Chop 2 cloves of garlic

Core and cut up 2 sweet green peppers

Core and cut up 4 hot peppers

Combine all of the above ingredients in a large pot and boil until the onions and peppers soften. Refrigerate this mixture overnight and then liquefy in a blender. Then strain to get out seeds and any skin.

Put the mixture back in the pot.

Add the following ingredients.

One tablespoon dry or two tablespoons fresh basil.

1 tablespoon dry oregano

¼ cup of salt

½ cup sugar

2 cups olive oil

4 - 12 ounce cans of tomato paste

1 – 6 ounce can of tomato paste

Boil for 1 ½ to 2 hours. Can in sterilized jars or freeze in freezer bags. Makes 10 to 12 quarts. (Recipe can be halved or quartered.)