Making Tomato Sauce

   We planted 40 tomato plants this year, with about half of them being plum tomatoes. We plan to make salsa and other things out of them, but what we really wanted to do this year is stock up on tomato sauce.
   Without an electric tomato strainer we had to come up with a way to make sauce. After washing the tomatoes, we cut out the stem base and put them into a food processor. We processed them until they turn into a pure liquid form. Then we poured them into a sieve that was over a big bowl. With a spatula we turned, scraped, and pushed the mash through the sieve leaving only the seeds and skins behind. After we had a good amount of juice, we poured into a pot, and brought it to boil on the cook top. As it reduced we kept adding more to the pot. Once we ran out of tomatoes we let it reduce to the desired consistency that we were looking for. One grocery bag of tomatoes made 2 1/2 qts. of sauce. We plan to make spaghetti sauce, pizza sauce, and ketchup out of the sauce later on, along with tomato soup, of course. With 40 plants we'll have plenty of sauce to make.