around labor day every year my family and another family get together and make sauce from scratch for the year. we jar up 400 and takes about a day and a half to complete.

this is a quick description of what we do.

we clean all tomatoes (2 tubs of water, they go in each), then boil them...throw the cloth on top and let dry.
throw the tomatoes through a grinder (skin goes out one side and sauce comes out the other.

add salt to the bucket of sauce pooring out when halfway full and stir with big wood spoon.

ladle sauce into jar add fresh basil and close lid tight (use gloves or you will get callouses like i did in 1995)

burlap the top of the jars and boil again to seal.

so good.

anyone else do this?