Just imagine a cold, snowy winter day with a pot of homemade vegetable soup rich with tomatoes cooking on the stove. That soup will be even more delicious when you use Home Canned Tomatoes in it!
What do you do when your carefully tended and nurtured garden rewards you with the gift of beautifully ripe summer tomatoes? Why you get out your canner and jars and go to work.
The first step in home canning tomatoes, or for any canning session, is to prepare your jars, lids, and rings and to start your canner full of water heating.
Wash the tomatoes well, then peel and core them. You can leave your tomatoes whole or cut them into halves or quarters.
When all the tomatoes are prepped and ready to go, start filling your jars. The method I use for canning tomatoes is the "raw packed in their own juice" method.
Fill the jar half to three-fourths full with tomatoes and then gently press on the tomatoes to release the juice and fill all the space between the tomatoes.