Garden Tomato Juice Blend - cooking recipe

Ingredients

22 lb. tomatoes
3/4 c. diced carrots
3/4 c. chopped celery
3/4 c. chopped green pepper
1/2 c. chopped onion
1 Tbsp. salt (optional)
bottled lemon juice or citric acid

Preparation

Wash
and drain tomatoes.
Remove core and blossom end. Cut into
quarters.
Simmer
vegetables
20
minutes.
Press through fine
sieve
or
food
mill.
Season with salt.
Add 2 tablespoons bottled lemon juice or 1/4 teaspoon citric acid to each pint. Bring
juice
blend
to a boil.
Pour hot juice in jars,
leaving 1/4-inch for headspace.
Adjust caps.
Process pints 40
minutes or quarts 45 minutes in boiling water bath. Makes about 7 quarts.