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Preserve summer's best-and that fresh-garden flavor-by canning tomatoes for the year to come.

In the cooking world, we often treat tomatoes as a vegetable even though they're actually a fruit. Canning is a culinary exception. Because tomatoes have high acidity, they are canned like other fruits in a boiling-water canner with only a splash of added citrus or vinegar (but you will learn how to pressure-can tomatoes, too). You can process them whole, halved, or stewed. We'll also show you how to can tomatoes in Mason jars no matter which way you cut (or crush) them.

For each pint of canned tomato...