Sauce is mostly a war against water, and this is the variety that lets you win it quickly. Amish Paste carries thick, meaty, acorn shaped fruit at eight to twelve ounces with a small seed cavity, so far less of what you pick has to be cooked away before the pot thickens. The texture is fine enough that it slices well for a salad too, which most paste tomatoes cannot claim. Slow Food USA lists it in the Ark of Taste. Vines are indeterminate and highly productive, so stake them and keep picking. Start indoors; about eighty days from transplant.

Open pollinated, untreated and GMO free seed, hand packed by Sow True Seed in Asheville, North Carolina.