[willy]

Yea Blue similar process, first cleaning them, then boiling them for a short time to loosen the skins, then thru the processor machine, we used to do it all with a hand crank version, guess who got stuck cranking all the time.
Then you take the skins etc and run them thru the machine a second time and that gets added to the pots also, then you have to cook the sauce down in giant pots, we would have I think eight going at one time, add salt and fresh basil. Then it is to the individual jars which are sterilized with new lids each time and that takes awhile too.
What we do is take this sauce and my wife would open what she needs for whatever kind of meal we are planning and cook it again adding tomato paste, fresh garlic, more basil and whatever other ingredients are needed for the job at hand, usually cooked with sausage and home made meatballs in a large pot for hours.
The flavor is incredible and the smell in the house makes you want to stay inside and inhale deeply ;D