Homemade tomato sauce - Real Recipes from Mums

This is a great way to use your older tomatoes that may have gone soft.
Instead of throwing them away make yummy tomato sauce. And freeze until you require it,

Ingredients (serves 10 | makes 10 )

15 pounds ripe tomatoes
1/4 cup red wine vinegar
2 tablespoons salt

Method

Make sure you pick ripe tomatoes. Add tomatoes to boiling water until skins start to come off. The remove from boiling water and put straight in to ice cold water. Then remove tomato skins.
Bring tomato sauce to a simmer over medium heat. continue to simmer for 30 - 90 minutes, stir occasionaly, until the sauce reaches the taste and consistency that you like
when finished cooking stir in red wine vinegar and salt. You can also freeze this product.

Notes

This is a great old recipe. My grandma used to make this when she had to may tomato's from her garden. And couldn't eat them all.

55 Comments

- - mom93821 said
  - 19 Sep 2017
    10:10 am
I love making tomato sauce because it just tastes so good.

- - youngoldlady said
  - 15 Aug 2017
    12:00 am
A great one for a glut of tomatoes.

- - mom112217 said
  - 30 Dec 2016
    5:34 pm
A fantastic recipe for ripe tomatoes and so very easy! Thanks!

- - EllenG89 said
  - 05 Aug 2015
    7:27 am
I love the idea of making your own. Then you know what is in it!

- - mom109229 said
  - 30 Jun 2015
    6:59 am
Thanks this looks great. I’ve been looking for something like this to give my toddler!

- - smart_ass said
  - 23 Jan 2015
    5:52 pm
very simple and easy

- - cloverstorm said
  - 17 Nov 2014
    12:15 am
I’ll have to keep this in mind instead of throwing out the soft tomatoes.
- mom93821 replied
  
  20 Sep 2017 , 6:14 am
  Tomatoes are so easy to use and add to cooking or to make up other recipes.
- - mom94125 said
  - 09 Nov 2014
    10:24 am
thanks for posting this anyway

- - mom94125 said
  - 15 Oct 2014
    9:40 pm
yum this is a cool recipe to try

- - BellaB said
  - 31 Aug 2014
    10:02 pm
I’m not sure I could be bothered, but thanks.

- - ginoula5 said
  - 10 Aug 2014
    3:27 pm
beautiful and easy to follow recipe, thanks for sharing

- - mom61924 said
  - 31 Jul 2014
    1:46 am
I’ve been looking for a yummy recipe for sauce everywhere thank you

- - mom57522 said
  - 25 Jun 2014
    10:11 pm
I to often have too many tomatoes in summer. Will try then.

- - twinmum2 said
  - 31 May 2014
    10:52 pm
Perfect with home grown tomatoes which are so much more flavoursome.

- - caramello said
  - 31 May 2014
    6:09 pm
i’m going to try this. thanks.