Bollocks to HP sauce then.

~D4T45H4T~ · Post by **~D4T45H4T~** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:04 pm 0

Capitalist Economics can be harsh and shitty, but theres fuck all you can do about it. Innit.

Orava · Post by **Orava** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:11 pm 0

Our kids get through about a ton of ketchup a day, and I'm not exactly happy giving so much money for the evil American Heinz company, especially as the garden is currently producing a couple of kilos of tomatoes a day.

So ketchup making day it is, I am following the recipe from one of the River Cottage cookbooks, so I've been picking and boiling tomatoes all day.

At first I could not achieve the unnatural hue of Heinz ketchup with tomatoes alone, so had to employ a couple of beetroots I found in the organic box. Sliced and added to the tomatoes for a few minutes only (so not to impart beetroot taste, just colour) the sauce is now looking exactly like a Heinz sauce from a bottle.

The true taste test will come later today. I'm cooking some fish and chips and serving them with my ketchup...

kalmar · Post by **kalmar** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:14 pm 0

That sounds rather nice. Can you make ketchup with green tomatoes I wonder? Got lots of them, the auto-waterer stuck and drowned some plants

Orava · Post by **Orava** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:39 pm 0

kalmar wrote:That sounds rather nice. Can you make ketchup with green tomatoes I wonder? Got lots of them, the auto-waterer stuck and drowned some plants

Not sure, we only finished eating our green tomato chutney from 1999. It was rather nice though after seven years of maturation.

I'm fairly sure Heinz (or someone else) had green ketchup on the market for a while a few months ago. Pretty sure it was green colour only though.

zip accident · Post by **zip accident** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:49 pm 0

Green potatos are poisinous, and tomatoes are close relatives, so check very thoroughly first.

However, there was:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101921/

So you may be alright.

gilesgoat · Post by **gilesgoat** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:51 pm 0

Orava wrote:Our kids get through about a ton of ketchup a day, and I'm not exactly happy giving so much money for the evil American Heinz company, especially as the garden is currently producing a couple of kilos of tomatoes a day.

So ketchup making day it is, I am following the recipe from one of the River Cottage cookbooks, so I've been picking and boiling tomatoes all day.

At first I could not achieve the unnatural hue of Heinz ketchup with tomatoes alone, so had to employ a couple of beetroots I found in the organic box. Sliced and added to the tomatoes for a few minutes only (so not to impart beetroot taste, just colour) the sauce is now looking exactly like a Heinz sauce from a bottle.

The true taste test will come later today. I'm cooking some fish and chips and serving them with my ketchup...

AFAIK what gives ketchup that "sting" is becuase there's some Vinegar
in it, probably some citric acid too and also some sugar.

Is kind a tomato sauce made "sweet and sour" by adding the things above
then probably xanatam gum and lot of other shite to give it that texture,
translucency and all.

Governmentyard · Post by **Governmentyard** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:35 pm 0

http://www.saveoursauce.co.uk/