Sounds delicious! I love celery leaves, they are my favorite part of celery. lol

I can't wait to try this...I think bloody mary mix is great so I'm sure this will be even more delicious!

Loved this post. I had never thought of making tomato juice and I buy it constantly (yeah, I'm one of those weekend bloody mary people). Thank you!

I'm so jealous of your tomato plants! This juice looks fantastic.

Great idea...and if you have lots of tomatoes, you can make that juice recipe and can it, therefore ensuring a steady supply throughout the winter.

Canning tomatoes is fairly easy albeit it does requires boiling water - not always something one is overjoyed with in August. So it helps to keep your mind firmly on the picture of all the fragrant winter dish you can make with the tomato sauce, puree, juice etc: lasagna, spaghetti sauce, stews & curries, pizza, meat ball in read sauce etc.

Next for me is tomato paste... got to use all those tomatoes!

Throw in some carrots, green, red, and yellow peppers,some chili's,and a couple of jalopeno's(whole), (or habanero's if you are brave), and a few bay leaves and some cilantro. Simmer for longer than 25 minutes(maybe 40 minimum) until the vegetables are soft enough to force through the sieve.
And while you are at it, halve the sugar. It may need a bit, but not enough to make it sweet. That ruins the fresh tomato taste. If you want to reduce the acidity, use low acid tomatoes!

The sugar amount is to taste. We have a lot of early girl tomatoes which tend to be more acidic and need the added sugar (again, for our taste, yours may be different.) ~Elise

Yes, I love homemade tomato juice - my parents have dozens of tomatos and we make juice, soup, and salad. And I wonder that I still don't feel sated with it.

Well, you have gone and done it again. Another excellent recipe. I read your recipe just after picking the morning's tomatoes and wondering what I was going to do with them. This was a fast, easy recipe. I used regular tomato, roma, and cherry tomatoes. The prep was so easy - no need to be precise on cutting. I used a mini food processor to finish it all off. Elise, this would make a good soup base! And I agree with the vodka comment above. LOL Thanks!

Hi elise,

Nice recipe for tomato juice.

We had a neighbor who used to make a cofee cake with tomato juice. She didn't share the recipe with me as it was her secret recipe.

Do you have any recipe for quick breads using tomato juice?

Campbell's Soup company came out with a spice cake recipe calling for a can of condensed tomato soup in the 1930's. It goes like this:

2 cups flour
1 1/3 cups sugar
1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1½ teaspoons ground allspice (optional)
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon ground cloves (optional)
1 can condensed Tomato Soup, undiluted
½ cup butter, softened
2 eggs
¼ cup water
1. Preheat oven to 350°F. 2. Grease and lightly flour 13” x 9” baking pan. 3. In large bowl mix flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and spice. 4. Add soup, butter, eggs, and water. With mixer at low speed, beat until well mixed, constantly scrapingside and bottom of bowl. At high speed, beat 4 minutes, occasionally scraping bowl. Pour into prepared pan.5. Bake 40 minutes, until toothpick inserted in centercomes out clean. 6. Cool in pan on wire rack 10 minutes. 7. Frost with Cream Cheese Frosting.

Here's another take on the recipe from the Old Foodie. M.F.K Fisher wrote about a similar cake in her How to Cook a Wolf.In this war time version, only 3 Tbsp of butter or shortening were used, and only 1 cup of sugar, for the same amount of flour. (You can search within the book on Amazon for the actual recipe.)
Hope that helps! ~Elise

The fresh juice recipe sounds delicious. When I have done all I want to do with the tomatoes from the garden I freeze smaller ones whole. Wash them and let dry. Cut out the stem end and pop them whole into gallon freezer bags. When ready to use them take out however many you need for soup or chili or spaghetti, put them in a colander and run hot water over them and the skin slides right off. Put them into whatever you are making and as they thaw just start chopping at them with a spatula until they are in pieces. I have been doing this for years.

Our tomatoes are grown in cages made out of 4x4 square wire used for concrete reinforcement and are about 5 1/2 feet tall. The tomatoes are now having to be tied to the sides to keep them from breaking because the have over grown the top of the cages by about 3 foot. We have 8 plants of different varieties, and the currant size vine is the only 'short' vine. compost is a wonderful growing medium, and if gardeners don't have a compost pile, you need to start one!
We make juice a freeze it. It last us a winter, and into spring. Then we start salivating thinking about a new crop of fresh tomatoes.

Hi Elise,

Thank you for the quick bread recipe using Tomato juice. I will try both the homemade tomato juice and the bread soon.

Thanks so much for the recipe. I tried it yesterday, and it was easy and delicious.

I just made this recipe, and it is great! The still-warm jars are cooling on my kitchen counter. I used a few cherry tomatoes and romas, along with "regular" tomatoes. I added 1/4 smoked paprika to the recipe, and used chipotle Tobasco sauce; I think both additions just rounded out the flavor. I want to make some more, and am willing to spend the gas money for a special trip to the store to get more celery. Thanks!

Hi Elise,
This looks like the perfect way to use up all the big tomatoes in my garden that cracked during the recent rain. I've just gathered them up and am ready to start cooking! One question - have you ever tried freezing this juice? I'm thinking of making several quarts at once and am the only one around here who will drink it - which is good news for me! ; )

Hi Susan, no we haven't tried freezing the juice. My experience with freezing juices like pomegranate or grape, isn't great. The flavor just isn't the same upon defrosting. Pure lemon juice does freeze well, and we freeze plenty of that. Haven't tried it with the tomatoes though. If you do, please let us know how it turns out! ~Elise

How long will my home made tomato juice keep in the refrig?

A week maybe? The last time we made it I think it took us a week to drink up. ~Elise