Yield on NCHFP spaghetti sauce

10 years ago

I'm studying this NCHFP recipe, and trying to figure out their yield number, just 9 pints for 30 lbs of tomatoes. Compare that to their standard tomato sauce recipe, which is only tomatoes and requires 21 pounds for 9 pints. And the spaghetti sauce has additional ingredients. It isn't being cooked long enough to really reduce the volume. How can this be? Has anyone made it?

The background to this question is that it is the dead of winter, I need to get some ground meat out of the freezer to make room for a half lamb on the way to the butcher and am thinking of canning up spaghetti sauce. I'd need to buy commercial crushed tomatoes, but the proportions/cooking time don't make sense for the final yield. I'm pointing to the recipe without meat because it's a simpler example, but the same is true of the NCHFP recipe with meat, only more so.

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Peter (6b SE NY)
10 years ago
I followed the NCHFP recipe with 30 pounds of tomatoes and got 12 pints.
Rose Pekelnicky
10 years ago
I get 16 pts
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theforgottenone1013 (SE MI zone 5b/6a)
10 years ago
last modified: 10 years ago
Well if you look on the standard tomato sauce recipe you'll see that for a thin sauce it takes an average of 21 pounds for 9 pints, but for a thick sauce it takes an average of 28 pounds for 9 pints. That's almost the same as the spaghetti sauce estimate.

"And the spaghetti sauce has additional ingredients. It isn't being cooked long enough to really reduce the volume."

How do you figure? For the spaghetti sauce recipe the tomatoes are boiled alone for 20 minutes. Then the other ingredients are added, and then the entire mix is boiled again until the volume has been reduced by about half. That's quite a bit of cooking.

In addition, there is also the fact that yield depends on the type of tomatoes used. Use juicy slicing tomatoes and the yield will be lower, use meatier tomatoes and it'll be higher.

Rodney
lgtung
8 years ago
I get 7 quarts for 30 pounds of opalka tomatoes, run through a victorio. That is without the pound of mushrooms which would probably add another quart.

Lee