Can someone please point me to Summerthyme's Tomato Soup (canned) recipe? I am just not finding it in my search efforts.
Thank you!
garnetgirl
Can someone please point me to Summerthyme's Tomato Soup (canned) recipe? I am just not finding it in my search efforts.
Thank you!
garnetgirl
Country Tomato Soup
For each gallon of tomato puree:
Chop 3 large onions
2 green (colored are even better) peppers
Simmer them in a tiny big of water until tender. Add to the pureed tomatoes in a LARGE kettle.
Blend together ¾ cup of sugar, 3 tablespoons salt and ½ cup cornstarch. Blend into 3 tablespoons basil vinegar (or white vinegar if the basil isn’t available… it adds a piquant, sweet touch that’s really nice, though)
Add a bit of water or tomato puree if necessary to make a smooth paste. Pour slowly into the pureed soup, stirring constantly. Heat to boiling, and stir until the liquid clears. For canning, pack hot.
Leave ½” headspace for pints, 1” headspace for quarts. PRESSURE process at 10# pressure for 20 minutes for pints, 30 minutes for quarts
For 5 gallons of puree:
15 large onions
10 bell peppers
3 ¾ cups sugar
1 cup salt
2 ½ cups cornstarch
1 cup vinegar
For 4 gallons:
12 large onions
8 bell peppers
3 cups sugar
¾ cup salt
2 cups cornstarch
¾ cup vinegar
(note- folks who have Squeezo or Victorio type strainers/food mills have said they run the cooked onions and peppers through the food mill when they do their tomatoes. I haven't tried it, but if you don't lose too much fiber from the vegetables (not having tried running onions or peppers through the mill, that's my major concern) it should work, and would save the chopping step. I have a large food processor, so even for the largest recipes (I usually make 15 gallons of this soup every year) it's not an onerous task)
Summerthyme
Thank you, oh so much!
garnetgirl
This soup sounds so awesome. I would love it, I know but my husband won't eat soup so I only make small, small sizes for myself. I love soup. And with the fireplace going....it is really yummy.
AL... would you like me to cut the recipe down for you, to.. say, a quart?
It's not hard...
Summerthyme
OK... this might not be EXACT... but I've never seen a soup recipe that required that! (it's funny... one of my DIL's grew up not having a CLUE in the kitchen. She still hates baking... "it's too hard" (this is a person with a master's degree! Sheesh!), but she's a great cook. Apparently, it's the "exact measurements" thing that gets her in baking!)
Anyway...
Use 1 quart of tomato puree
1 medium onion
1/4 cup chopped sweet pepper (if you have dehydrated, just rehydrate a couple tablespoons of dried peppers and use them)
Add
3 tablespoons of sugar
2 1/4 Teaspoons of salt
2 tablespoons cornstarch
2 1/4 Teaspoons vinegar
Follow the above directions, and enjoy!
Summerthyme
Thanks ST...printed and saved
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Sorry for a dumb question but is the 1 quart version for making 1 quart of soup, or is this what you get when you take 1 quart tomato puree (I am guessing that is home-made strained tomatoes?).
So to make additional quarts we just multiply (by 4's would be good because of the 1/4 bell pepper) to the size desired?
I am asking because since we didn't get a garden in this year (and they don't use gallons over here either) I'm going to have to buy a box or two of tomatoes at the farmers market (or when they go on discount) to make this and put it up and/or my Italian sauce etc.
I have quite a few quart canning jars so that's an easy measure for me.
expatriate Californian living in rural Ireland with husband, dogs, horses. garden and many, many cats
I'm growing lots of purple basil in order to make the purple basil vinegar the ST recommends. It makes a huge difference.