How to preserve tomatoes for winter?
For home bottled tomatoes, select ripe and healthy tomatoes. Tomatoes should be washed and cut into slices. Tomatoes prepared in this way can be cooked immediately, and you can also grind them. If you are preparing unground tomatoes, it is enough to boil them for 15-20 minutes. Next, it should be pureed, then put back in the pot and cooked until the desired thickness. At the end of cooking, a little salt, sugar, chopped parsley and ground pepper should be added to this tomato. If you want the tomatoes to be spicy, grind a few hot peppers and add them during cooking.
While the tomatoes are cooking, prepare the bottles; they must be completely clean, washed, well dried and heated to a temperature of 120 degrees Celsius. Pour the cooked tomatoes into the bottles with a clean ladle, close them with cellophane that adheres well and secure with a rubber band. Place the bottles stored in this way in a dry and warm place and cover them with a thick blanket, in order to maintain the heat that performs sterilization as long as possible. After that, put completely cold bottles in a dry and cool place.
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