Crab Tomato Soup

Ingredients

• water
  4 quarts
• peeled tomatoes or 2 cans (28 ounces) tomatoes
  5 cups
• can

  8 ounces tomato sauce
  1 unit
• bay leaves
  2 unit
• pearl barley
  ½ cup
• chopped parsley
  ½ cup
• Old Bay seasoning
  1 tablespoon
• celery

  diced
  3 stalks
• onion

  chopped
  1 large
• ham hocks
  2 unit
• beef bone
  1 unit
• salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
  1 unit
• live blue crabs

  cleaned and quartered, backs reserved
  8 unit
• cabbage

  chopped
  ½ head
• potatoes

  peeled and diced
  2 medium
• fresh or frozen mixed vegetables

  such as diced carrots, cut-up green beans, corn kernels, shelled peas and lima beans, in any combination
  4 cups
• claw crab meat

  picked over
  2 pounds