canning tomatoes

These are the tomatoes that we picked from the garden yesterday.
We have Romas, Beefsteaks and Better Boys.

Here is the pressure cooker and jars we cleaned.

Two of my great grandmothers have given us jars.
One box has the price of $2.62 on it!
I am adding a tsp of salt to each jar.

We put the tomatoes in boiling water for 30 seconds to hep the skins slip off easier.
Andrew helped for a while. He put the peeled tomatoes in the jars.

When you take the tomatoes out of the boiling water you place them in very cold water to stop the cooking.

Once the jars are full and the air is out we wipe the rims of the jars clean and place a lid and top on each jar. Next we place them in our pressure cooker with 2qts of water and lock the lid. We cook them at 5lbs of pressure for 10 minutes.

Once we were finished we had to wash all the dish and supplies.

We ended up with 14qts of Romas and 7qts of Beefsteak and Better Boy mixed!

We will use these tomatoes in the winter for chili, salsa and spaghetti sauce!

~Aubrey