{"id":3973,"date":"2014-04-28T18:26:25","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T22:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=3973"},"modified":"2014-04-28T18:26:25","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T22:26:25","slug":"q-and-a-peeling-eggs-and-canning-tomato-sauce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2014\/04\/28\/q-and-a-peeling-eggs-and-canning-tomato-sauce\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: peeling eggs and canning tomato sauce"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peeling eggs<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wanted to pass on my tip for peeling new eggs. After boiling and cracking them just slip a spoon between the shell and egg, run it around the egg. The peel will slide off with no torn whites.<\/em><\/p>\n

Carolyn Kraus<\/em>
\nCedar Grove, Indiana<\/em><\/p>\n

Thanks for the tip, Carolyn. I’ll give it a try this afternoon! Peeling fresh eggs is always a challenge. — Jackie<\/p>\n

Canning tomato sauce<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last year I tried to make tomato sauce following the directions in your book. The tomato sauce I have used from a can is pretty thick, so I used the roasting pan overnight for one batch and the stove for another.<\/em><\/p>\n

Both batches the longer I let them cook down the darker they got until they were no longer bright red but a very dark red. They thickened up but I am wondering if the color darkening means I did something wrong. I went ahead and processed them up anyway. Now I am wondering if the darker colored ones are considered paste more than sauce or if they are not any good to use due to the darkened color. <\/em><\/p>\n

When I went to use a jar from another batch of sauce today it was still fairly liquidy, but more red in color. I had to cook it down for a bit (was making your meat sauce-seasoned) for eating that night. I did 1\/4 of a recipe and it turned out great. I have learned in my family to make something first and make sure everyone likes it before I can up a bunch of something to find out later that it isn’t liked! <\/em><\/p>\n

Lisa <\/em>
\nMaryland<\/em><\/p>\n

Yes, the sauce that you oven cook is darker. But that doesn’t affect the taste. If you truly want a red sauce, you can use a steam juicer to remove much of the juice\/water, use a jelly bag to separate your sauce from the liquid (you’ll lose some sauce this way) or freeze the puree. On thawing, the water will separate out and it’s easy to harvest pure puree w\/o water. I like the ease of the oven method and figure the dark color just looks richer. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peeling eggs I wanted to pass on my tip for peeling new eggs. After boiling and cracking them just slip a spoon between the shell and egg, run it around the egg. The peel will slide off with no torn whites. Carolyn Kraus Cedar Grove, Indiana Thanks for the tip, Carolyn. I’ll give it a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}