Ketchup (tomato Sauce)

Name: How to cook Ketchup (tomato Sauce) - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 24 servings
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

almu21

Ketchup (tomato Sauce)

A bit of the summer tomatoes taste in a jar for the winter. I love the thought of knowing this lovely sauce came from the tomatoes we grew in the garden. Makes me look forward to the seed sowing next season.

Ingredient

Food ration :

24 servings

Cooking time :

2 hours 30 mins

700 grams

ripe tomatoes

125 grams

onion, chopped

300 ml

malt vinegar

60 grams

sugar

2 tsp

salt

1 tsp

dry mustard

pinch

cayenne pepper

cloves whole

blade of mace

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Slice tomatoes and chop onions

* Step 2

Put in pan with all the ingredients. Cloves and blade of mace both in muslin bag

* Step 3

Simmer gently for about 1 hour

* Step 4

Put through liquidizer and/or sieve (remove muslin bag first)

* Step 5

Return to pan and simmer to thickness required stirring frequently

* Step 6

Leave in china or pyrex bowl to cool

* Step 7

When quite cold put into screw top bottles or jars.

* Step 8

If you want to keep it a bit longer you may have to further sterilize after bottling. Secondary sterilizing: in deep pan cover bottled ketchup jars with water trying to keep it at 77°C for 30 minutes