V-5 juice

[feather]

It's tomato juice, or v-5 juice, or I just can't wait for summer tomatoes.

1-5 quart ice cream bucket of frozen tomatoes, (or canned tomatoes).
2 carrots quartered
1 onion in half
1/2 cup celery dehydrated
1 green pepper seeds and all

Put a couple cups of water in with the 4 vegetables, cook to soft, blend with a hand blender, add tomatoes, boil or simmer for 30 minutes. Hand blend it again with a hand blender.

Let cool, strain it through a sieve.
Add 2 Tablespoons of Worcestershire sauce
Salt to taste (2-3 teaspoons)
1/4-1/8th teaspoon fresh ground pepper
Cayenne pepper or hot sauce to taste

Store it in quart canning jars in the fridge, makes about 3 quarts. It turned out delicious.

[solargeek]

feather, Yippee I will try this tomorrow when we are supposed to have heavy storms.

[Deleted]

We can tomato juice with onion and celery. We cook it all good and run through sieve. Makes great tomato juice or cook down for pizza sauce, spaghetti sauce, in chili, enchiladas, etc....James

[feather]

May 15, 2017 16:14:42 GMT @jwal10 said:

We can tomato juice with onion and celery. We cook it all good and run through sieve. Makes great tomato juice or cook down for pizza sauce, spaghetti sauce, in chili, enchiladas, etc....James

Do you add lemon juice and salt and make it in a water bath?

I think I remember paquebot also cans tons of tomato juice for drinking. It would be great to have on the pantry shelves! On a cold winter day I've warmed up tomato juice to drink like a soup, added a pat of butter to the top, and had some crackers to dip into it. Yummy stuff.

I've never had enough canned tomatoes so that I could quit canning sauce and then spend time making the juice and I'd need 3 more cases of quart cans. Is there a trick to doing it, making sauce and juice at the same time?

[Deleted]

We pressure can it, no lemon juice or salt. We juice a lot of tomatoes because we can all our tomatoes in juice too, both whole and diced. We can this and then cook it down when we open the jar, before adding to pizza or enchiladas. For chili and spaghetti we use as is and cook down in the process of making it....James

[paquebot]

Yes, I can "tons" of plain tomato juice, mostly in 2-quart jars. Hard to believe how handy it is. It's the start to a big pot of chili. If only half is needed for cooking, other half gets a dash of salt and pepper for drinking. I don't think that I've ever made a V-5 but as high as V-12. No particular recipe but key added ingredient is celery. (Just like a Bloody Mary needs a stick of celery.) Beets also go in but in moderation, mostly just for color.

Martin

[feather]

Yes I knew it, TONS!!

[terrilynn]

May 15, 2017 16:14:42 GMT @jwal10 said:

We can tomato juice with onion and celery. We cook it all good and run through sieve. Makes great tomato juice or cook down for pizza sauce, spaghetti sauce, in chili, enchiladas, etc....James

Add a little green pepper and garlic to this and it sounds exactly like how we do it too!!

[feather]

Making a batch this morning, with 3 qts of tomatoes (kind of thick) with 2 quarts of water to bring up the volume. It's cooling now, to be strained later. I love how it smells.

When I was growing up, tomato juice was a treat, and it still is now.

[ceresone]

ok--i think i have bought into too much safety---i trust how i canned my juice--but there is the niggling reminder to boil all home canned products before consuming--and that ruins all taste for drinking

[Mari-in-IN]

We don't boil ours prior to consuming...  But I follow the instructions in the Ball book to a "T" as far as canning anything... With the tomato juice I usually add a tad more lemon juice than they say since I heard somewhere that supposedly tomatoes today aren't as acidic?

[Mari-in-IN]

Ok... I got out my Ball book and just read this - which did indeed surprise me!

This was under the heading of "Using Home Canned Foods".

"To minimize the risk of exposure to botulism in low-acid and tomato products the USDA recommends boiling the food 10 minutes for altitudes at or below 1,000 feet above sea level to destroy the toxin produced by Clostridium botulinum.  Extend the boiling by 1 additional minute for each 1,000 foot increase in elevation."

I've never done this with our salsa or juice - I don't use low acid tomatoes - to my knowledge...  Hmmmmm...  Curious to see what others have to say about this!

[paquebot]

I don't think that the BBB advice is a blanket one which applies to everything in their book. They have recipes for juices that would normally be served cold. I've canned a lot of various tomato-based juices plus apple and pear. They all go straight from the jar to glasses. And I definitely would not be boiling salsa, with or without vinegar in the recipe.

Martin

[Mari-in-IN]

I think the folks who put out the Ball book are just covering their you know what's by having that in there as far as what the USDA recommends...  

The Ball book also states - "When up-to-date tested guidelines are followed, there should be little concern about the quality and safety of your home canned foods.  However, it is always best to visually examine each jar before it is served to ensure no changes have occurred."
I always give everything the "sniff" test as well.  Honestly though, we've never had a problem with anything that had a good seal.

Like I stated before, I've never boiled our salsa or juice prior to consuming and definitely don't plan on ever doing it - oh my!

[feather]

I visually inspect the contents of our canned goods before opening them. Then the deciding factor is the seal. I can't have any noisiness going on during opening the seal*, it must resist and a suction noise must happen when I open the jar. I don't boil or heat any canned goods for the purpose of safety. Either it is safe and the seal is healthy or I toss it.

*both guys were noisily talking in the room when I was opening a few jars of tomato sauce. I asked them, to please be quiet for a minute so I can hear the seal. They stopped talking for the moment. I opened the seal and heard the suction, I told them everything was good, and then I let them know, they could go on as they were.

If the suction noise is weak or questionable, we don't eat it.

[coppice]

A chopped up beet, or even a little beet juice from can, will spruce up your vegetable juice. Cot it in, sieve it out.