Tomato Paste - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    48 large tomatoes
    2 teaspoons salt
Preparation
    Peel, core and chop tomatoes; measure to 8 quarts.
    Add salt.
    Place in a large stainless or enamel pot and simmer for 1 hour.
    Remove and put through a food mill.
    Return to pot and continue to cook-around 2 hours-or until it holds its shape-like tomato paste.
    Spoon into clean hot jars leaving 1/4-inch head space.
    Process in a boiling water bath for 30 minutes at altitudes up to 1000 feet.
    Note-if your going to make quarter pints same process time please.

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