Basic Tomato Sauce (From Fresh Tomatoes) Recipe

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  1. Cut tomatoes in half, sprinkle with salt and place the tomatoes face down in a colander for half an hour or possibly more. Now, gently squeeze out of the tomatoes as many seeds as you can, and then place the tomatoes in a large pan. Cover and simmer gently for a few min (5 - 10). DON'Tablespoons STIR! Drain away the yellow "juice", because it is very sour. At this point, we use a special utensil to separate the pulp from the skin.
  2. Bring the pulp to the boil and pour it into glass jars while boiling - proceed carefully, to prevent jars from cracking, and fill up one jar at a time (the pan should stay on the stove, simmering gently, all the time). As an optional extra, you can add in a few leaves of basil in each jar, before filling the jar with sauce.
  3. Cover each jar with its lid as soon as it's full (you'll have to act quickly, as in less than a minute the jar can get to a too high temp for you to touch it!). Place jars in a large cardboard box, wrapping each jar in rags (preferably woolen). Store the jars close together in the box and let them stand overnight (24 hrs at least). Do not be surprised if you find which the jars, when you open the box after 24 hrs, are still warm: this is the best sterilizing method I know!
  4. This is the way we make our tomato sauce for "winter storage". It keeps for at least one year. You can use this basic sauce as a base for any kind of spaghetti sauce. As it has a very natural tomato flavour, it's also perfect for stews, soups, pizza, and all sorts of other tomato based preparations.

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