Aunt Olive's Noodle Soup

This is a family recipe. It is a soup that you bottle. It is a little time intensive to cut everything up and bottle it in the summer, but it sure make a fast, yummy meal when you go to use it.

I have also cut down the recipe before and made it for one meal (not bottling it). See recipe below.

1/2 bushel tomatoes

1/4 C. salt

1 C. sugar

1 tsp. pepper

9 C. macaroni (cooked)

3 large bell peppers

1 bunch celery

5 medium yellow onions

1/2 lb. real butter

Melt butter in skillet. Add celery, onions and peppers until light brown.

Peel tomatoes, cut into small pieces. Cook all other ingredients. Boil hard for 15 minutes.

Mix together.

Put into clean bottles. Cold pack pints for 20 minutes. Quarts for 25 minutes.

Makes about 35 pints.

The last time we made this we tripled everything except we only doubled the tomatoes. It made 16-24 quarts. It took a total of 4-5 hours.

When you serve this it will probably need pepper. To stretch it you can puree a bottle of tomatoes and add to it. Some other variations are to add cooked hamburger or cooked sausage when serving. You can also top with parmesan cheese or regular cheese when serving.

I know Sister Dabb has a recipe that is VERY similar that she made for RS one time. She doesn't add the noodles to hers (before bottling). Then she can make the soup with rice or noodles. It's a good idea, but it's also nice to just open a bottle and have an immediate meal.

These are the quantities to cut it down to a single dinner...

5 tomatoes, blended in blender .......When I was done it was too thick, so I blended a large can of stewed tomatoes and added it. (you could probably just add more tomatoes at the beginning or use bottled tomatoes instead of stewed.)

1 T. salt

3 T. splenda or sugar

A few shakes of pepper

3-4 handfuls of noodles (curly or macaroni or whatever), this is about 2 1/2 C. cooked and drained

1 bell pepper, chopped

2 stalks celery, chopped

1 yellow onion, chopped

2 tsp. oil

Fry the vegs in oil until tender. Mix everything together and heat through.