"Dan Abel" wrote in message
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I made tomato sauce once when we first moved to Cape Cod. My neighbors were
moving out and they dumped a whole wheelbarrow full of tomatoes on my
doorstep. They were moving. This was military housing and the rule was
that if you had a garden, you had to put it back to grass (the way it was)
before you moved out. So they gifted me the tomatoes. I was home alone at
the time. Husband was overseas. These were not sauce tomatoes. I also
didn't know that it wasn't safe to eat what was grown in that soil because
of the chlordane.
I had few cookbooks at the time. Hadn't started collecting them yet. And
had no Internet. The only sauce recipe I had came from some 1940's book. It
wasn't an Italian sauce. I can't remember all of the particulars of it but
it had milk in it, and maybe butter. The end result was pink.
My previous attempts at canning were dismal. I have since learned more and
have successfully canned things. But I wasn't about to try it with this
sauce and Lordy I had a ton of it! So I made it all up and I froze it.
We ate it with pasta and it was good. Husband is Italian. He had no
complaints. And I lived to tell about it.
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I made tomato sauce once when we first moved to Cape Cod. My neighbors were
moving out and they dumped a whole wheelbarrow full of tomatoes on my
doorstep. They were moving. This was military housing and the rule was
that if you had a garden, you had to put it back to grass (the way it was)
before you moved out. So they gifted me the tomatoes. I was home alone at
the time. Husband was overseas. These were not sauce tomatoes. I also
didn't know that it wasn't safe to eat what was grown in that soil because
of the chlordane.
I had few cookbooks at the time. Hadn't started collecting them yet. And
had no Internet. The only sauce recipe I had came from some 1940's book. It
wasn't an Italian sauce. I can't remember all of the particulars of it but
it had milk in it, and maybe butter. The end result was pink.
My previous attempts at canning were dismal. I have since learned more and
have successfully canned things. But I wasn't about to try it with this
sauce and Lordy I had a ton of it! So I made it all up and I froze it.
We ate it with pasta and it was good. Husband is Italian. He had no
complaints. And I lived to tell about it.