hoodat
Garden Addicted
I guess old dogs can learn new tricks. I've always hated making tomato sauce. To get a thick sauce can take two days of simmering and that's a lot of wasted time and fuel.
I just had an old gal show me a trick I should have figured out myself. Start by quartering tomatos and boil them only till they soften. it isn't necessary to peel them. Once they have softened run them through a food mill like a Foleys to seperate out the seeds and skins. You now have something like a watery tomato paste. Now comes the trick.
Take a thin piece of cotton material like a square from a worn out bed sheet and line a large collander with it. Put it over a large bowl or pot. Now pour in your sauce and just wait. The liquid will slowly drain off and into the pot through the bed sheet or muslin. Once it has drained away you have a nice thick tomato sauce without all of the boiling. Save the juice that drains off. You may can it up and use it later as the basis of a soup or stew.
I just had an old gal show me a trick I should have figured out myself. Start by quartering tomatos and boil them only till they soften. it isn't necessary to peel them. Once they have softened run them through a food mill like a Foleys to seperate out the seeds and skins. You now have something like a watery tomato paste. Now comes the trick.
Take a thin piece of cotton material like a square from a worn out bed sheet and line a large collander with it. Put it over a large bowl or pot. Now pour in your sauce and just wait. The liquid will slowly drain off and into the pot through the bed sheet or muslin. Once it has drained away you have a nice thick tomato sauce without all of the boiling. Save the juice that drains off. You may can it up and use it later as the basis of a soup or stew.
