This weekend’s harvest included 25lbs of paste tomatoes that I bought at the Vankleek Hill Farmer’s Market, and 20lbs of wild apples that Fearsclave and I gathered from a wide variety of trees in his back 40.
I spent most of yesterday processing the tomatoes into 16 jars of crushed tomatoes/tomato sauce:
Crush
[This wonderful machine is a European Tomato Press that I bought from Lee Valley Tools. It not only crushes the tomatoes to a very fine consistency, but spits the peels and seeds out the other end while doing so.]
Health and work schedule permitting, I’ll be turning the wild apples into apple jelly on Thursday or Friday.
Ooh, I covet that press! I hate peeling tomatoes.