Artisanal Preservation - Tomato Kasundi

Sharing food with friends is one of life's great pleasures. Making food with friends is right up there too as a wonderful way to spend time together and end up with something useful that you have all helped to create. Thanks to a cheap box of tomatoes three of us got together yesterday to make tomato kasundi (from the recipe in Charmaine Solomon's Complete Asian Cookbook). We had far more tomatoes than we had jars to fill. Undaunted we then decided to make tomato sauce (from the recipe in A Year in a Bottle by Sally Wise) as well.
Then we needed to hunt around and find another pan so that we could have three huge pots bubbling away on the stove together.

Our next decision was to make twice the quantity specified in the  sauce recipe. After a lot of chopping we  realised we had mis-read the scales and had weighed up the tomatoes in pounds rather than kilos. This explained why our 16 kilo box wasn't emptying as fast as we had anticipated.
We were stalled for a moment while there was much discussion and reweighing and a bit of back and forth about who had added what and how much. Our deliberations were complicated somewhat becasue the sauce was being cooked in two pans so the recipe was being 'doubled' (although not really) and halved at the same time. Fortunately we discovered our scaling problem as we were about to add the salt to the sauce but not before we had added the sugar, some of which had to be carefully retrieved.
Part way through we also realised we didn't have all the ingredients for the sauce and perhaps not quite enough of some so a little improvisation was necessary.
Miraculously the kasundi proceeded without any set backs once we worked out how many more tomatoes we needed to add. (For your information it would appear that there are around five Roma tomatoes to the pound.)

Thanks to both good recipes and good old commonsense the end results tasted fabulous. Is this what you would call artisanal preservation? The products are certainly unique - we couldn't reproduce them even if we tried.