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Old October 8, 2011   #13
brokenbar
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A gallon of milk weighs 8 pounds. Okay...that's all the math I can handle...
(and I know this having had both milk cows and dairy goats...)

I thought perhaps there were those here who had never canned sauce and so had no idea just how many pounds of tomatoes it would take. And it also takes quite a little time to simmer 5 gallons down by half if the raw sauce is from any old tomatoes. I have this HUGE sort of a crock pot thingy and it holds about 3 gallons.
I simmer my sauce overnight on low with the lid off. If you use the stove, can't leave it overnight cooking.

Spaghetti sauce should be really thick or the pasta absorbs too much water from the sauce and ends up over-done and a little mushy. This is why you should never mix spaghetti with the sauce ahead of time. Al dente..the only way to eat it...In cooking, the Italian expression al dente describes pasta that has been cooked so as to be firm but not hard.
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