Tomato Paste in Bottles or Jars

Ingredients

• tomatoes

Instructions

1. Boil the tomatoes briefly.
2. Pass them through a fine strainer, pressing well to extract all the pulp.
3. Fill dark glass bottles with this paste, leaving them slightly not quite full.
4. Cap with a cork that has been soaked since the day before.
5. Tie it down firmly with wire and seal with wax.
6. Cook for four hours in a bain-marie (water bath), or longer if using soldered tins.