Maria's Quantity Tomato Sauce

Ingredients

• 28 lbs. fresh picked tomatoes
• 1 large bag fresh basil
• 1 large head garlic, cloves unpeeled
• 2 onions, chunks
• 1 cup sugar, or to taste
• salt, to taste
• dried red chile pepper, to taste

Method

• Use a 20 quart pot; non-reactive. Smash tomatoes with hands into pot and add large bag of basil leaves, garlic, onion, salt, red chile pepper, and sugar. Cook and reduce in pot by about 4" for 3-4 hours. Can in mason jars.

Notes

• Description:
• "This is Liza's mom's special delicious tomato sauce that she
• cans.......mmmmmmmmmm."