Tangy Spaghetti Sauce for Canning

This is one great recipe!! My aunt recommended it to me, and I've made (and canned) three batches already!! Although I must cook mine down quite a bit, b/c I only get 5 qts and not the 7-8 noted in the recipe.
I made one major change that I would highly recommend - to be safe when canning tomatoes, all recipes MUST be acidified, otherwise you run the risk of spoilage. B/c of that, I added 1/2 cup red wine vinegar and 3/4 cup lemon juice, and upped the brown sugar to 1/4 cup. It may sound like a lot of acid, but it is needed to keep my (and your) family safe.
other than that, this is one amazing recipe, I'm sure it will taste better after sitting in the jars for a few weeks/months.

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This spaghetti sauce was delicious! Thank you for sharing.

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This is a great recipe! Txs for sharing. I did however add 3/4 cup of white sugar to tame some of the tangy tomato taste and I also used garlic salt instead of fresh garlic. I will definately make this again once the garden tomato's are ready!

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Great Sauce. Openned the first jar today. I followed the recipe except I pressure canned it. Served over stuffed shell.
The only bad thing is I didn't can enough of it.

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This sauce is wonderful. I put a small yellow chilli pepper in with no seeds, and it has just enough kick to it. Absolutely wonderful. Made 7 quarts on Sat., and another 7 on Sunday, with my son and daughter in law. They both just loved it. thank you
Jan buesgens

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Nice and thick, everyone loved it, I thought it was a little spicy but everyone else said don't change a thing, make more. Thanks for sharing, this is a keeper.

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This was my first time canning spaghetti sauce and I saw this recipe and it looked good so I tried it...I loved it!! I'm making my second batch today. Thanks so much for summiting it!!

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Great sauce! Made 2 batches!

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This is good. I added 1 T. lemon juice, 1 zucchini, and 1 small eggplant (because I wanted to use it up). The flavor is really good, and I'm still cooking it down.

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Just made this up today. It is delicious! I left out the canned mushrooms and added a large zuchinni and fresh basil from my garden. Also added a large hot green chili pepper instead of the wax chile. It is more spicy than tangy but I love this recipe...it makes up quite alot. Thanks for posting.

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Great sauce. I added more garlic, used red onions, used portabella mushrooms and ground turkey. Of course, with the turkey, I had to pressure can instead of waterbath.

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This was good sauce, but I wasn't crazy about the cumin in it. I think if I made it again I would omit it. I cut the recipe in half and just froze the leftovers in Freezer bags instead of canning. Potzi

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This was great!

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I am going to give this 5 stars before I can even taste it. I am water bathing as we speak. I made this up this morning and have never made spaghetti sauce before. WOW! The aroma is unbeatable. I just called for 2 more bushels of tomatoes and want to make tons of this!! I didn't have 3 cans of paste so used 2. Seemed to thicken up nicely. Will add more "stuff" next batch eg: mushrooms etc. Thanks a million for the great recipe!

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This turned out great. I didn't do it exactly like the recipe. Here are the changes I made. I didn't add the hugarian pepper (didn't have one), I used two packages of bella mushrooms cut up (I don't like the canned ones), spices I did all the same with the exception of some added fennel, then I added pureed zucchini, spinach and various colored peppers. The spinach made the sauce a little darker red but the added nutrition was worth it. It turned out pretty chunky so I threw some in the blender to smooth it out a bit. Also, the extra vegetables made it a little runnier so I added another can of tomato paste. I canned in a pressure cooker in pints. I wasn't sure about the timing - I did them for 35 minutes at 15 pounds pressure. We ate the extra today for dinner and it was great. Thanks! We'll be doing this every year.

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We ran our tomatoes through a Victorio as the kids don't like chunky. Added some zucchini and summer squash since we have an abundance. I think this is the all-time best sauce I've ever had! Sorry mom.

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I just tried this with the abundance of tomatoes right now it was a great way to use some of them up. Excellent flavor, now I am set for the winter.

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My whole family loves this recipe. I dont think well will buy store bought sauce again. This summer we made 49 quarts. Thanks for posting this recipe.

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This is an excellent recipe. It makes a very chunky sauce. I like it a little saucier so I made some smooth pureed tomato sauce as well and mixed them together before canning for a great sauce that has just enough chunkiness for us!

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I loved it! Very easy and the taste is WAY better than the boughten stuff! I ended up making 6 batches! Thanks so much for sharing this great recipe. :)

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