Sept. 26th 2012
We received 7 bins of Roma tomatoes the other day. I don't know if we traded stuff for them or what but they just appeared and I was told on Tuesday at 3 p.m. we would start making sauce (sugo) and peeled tomatoes. This is not something I would think to START in the afternoon as late as 3. So Maria Pia started cleaning the tomatoes after Italo sorted the "perfect for peeling" from the the not so perfect for sauce. What we do is after cutting up the tomatoes (in half) and cooking them, we put them through this machine that separates the pulp from the skin and seeds. Just exactly like the machine Dora used in Battaglia. Only this machine here was much newer with some plastic parts. The older one in Battaglia was all metal. The sauce comes out perfectly smooth in just the right consistency for pouring into the jars. Then we fill the 1 liter jars 1/4 full with sauce. Meanwhile Italo is putting a large amount of the 'perfect' tomatoes into the biggest pot of boiling water you could imagine. The pot covered the whole cooktop of our stove. Then after they boiled for a few minutes he scooped them out and put them into the two sinks filled with cold water. Then I had to removed the skins which came off quite easily. these peeled tomatoes is what went into the 1/4 filled jars. Caps were put on tightly and when done put into more really big pots to boil for about an hour with towels securing them in place so they couldn't move After many hours of back breaking work and wet from head to toe, we were done. This is not something I'd want to do again. At least not right away.
We ended up with 132 liters (quarts) of SUGO!! Many will be sold. Rest for the family.
Also a carefully measured amount of salt was added.
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