The internet is not giving me what I want. Stupid internet. I want to make a whole bunch of pasta sauce (I am now canning enabled!) and all of the recipes are for 2-5 cups of sauce. I know I can just multiply the recipe but I would feel safer knowing that a recipe was intended as a large batch one because sometimes you don’t really want to just multiply straight across the board.
Stupid internet.
Hmm. In all the canning I used to do, I never really used a written recipe…
I found a large-batch sauce recipe here, and another one here. The one here even has pictures!
Shouldn’t matter. Sometimes you can’t simply multiply recipes because it changes cooking times — cakes would be a good example. And some foods need more cooking time when you use a larger one, like a turkey. But spaghetti sauce, chili, things like that, can be multiplied to as many times as your cooking vessels will allow. (I’ve done my pet chili recipe for school fundraisers for dozens of people.)
However, anything with meat in it has special canning requirements. If you’re doing a meat-based sauce, do your homework carefully.
And even with cakes you can multiply the recipe as much as you want to create the batter, you just have to use the same size pan the recipe calls for.
Thanks for the telling me to watch the meat. I probably wouldn’t have thought of that. 🙂
I’ve had things not work out when I multiply recipes so I’m really gun-shy. Noah is on your side of the ‘it doesn’t matter’ debate but I’ve had disastrous experiences with it.
they sell Ragu in all kids of sizes, y’know ;]
I cook in army sized quantities as a matter of being me, so the idea of ONLY making 2-5 cups of pasta sauce seems nigh impossible.
But pasta sauce, in particular a straight up marinara, is pretty freakin’ unbreakable….multiply away. Just taste it along the way and make sure it’s how you like it.