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Tomato juice, sauce and runner beans

Today I preserved over 5kg of tomatoes. I read an article about the best way to preserve tomatoes and they had a way of doing it so you get the juice and the flesh separately. The steps are as follows:

  1. blanch the tomatoes in boiling water for 45-60 seconds and then place straight in ice cold water.
  2. split the tomato in 2 and the skins should just easily peel off.
  3. then quarter and remove the seeds and pulp, place this in a sieve over a bowl (this is where the juice comes from).
  4. put the flesh in a freezer bag and place in the freezer until future use.
  5. Bottle the juice and drink freshly chilled or freeze.
The runner beans were chopped diagonally and frozen in freezer bags, I didn't blanch these ones as I want to see if there is much of a difference.