Ketchup

[riverga]

Anyone have a ketchup recipe? Currently have 7 five gallon buckets sitting in my breezeway. Thank-y'all.

[DunDunDuuun]

http://www.topsecretrecipes.com/Hein...up-Recipe.html


Some of his dupes are dead on. Haven't tried this one yet.

[Patches]

Wow, if I could make Heinz Ketchup I'd be one happy camper. Thank you for posting that site. I'm going to try it soon.

[Kathe]

I have been searching for years for a ketchup recipe that tastes like Heinz. Finally found it and it is amazing.

Heinz Ketchup Ingredient : Secret Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste with garlic (I just use regular tomato paste with a dash of garlic powder)
  
• 1/2 cup light corn syrup
• 1/4 cup white vinegar
• 1/4 cup white balsamic vinegar (I used apple cider vinegar and it was delicious)
  
• 1/4 cup water
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon onion powder

Instructions :

1. Combine all ingredients in a medium saucepan over medium heat.
2. Stir and bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 30 min.
3. Stir often.
4. Remove from heat and cover til cool.
5. Keep in a covered container in fridge.

[Davy Crockett]

My cousin's boy lives next door to me and he makes ketchup.
I forget how much, but it takes a pile of tomatoes to make a little ketchup

[DunDunDuuun]

There is also this lady's way of making it w/ fresh tomatoes. Haven't done this one either, but her husband says it's better than Heinz, and if that's true, that's something!

http://www.youtube.com/user/atticus9.../0/fzKtZWy-UEw

[Summerthyme]

Davy... an awful lot depends on what variety of tomatoes you're using. If you're using beefsteak or other juicy "eating types", then yes, it can take a TON of tomatoes to cook down into a decent catsup.

If you use some good paste tomatoes- Royal Chico, Principe Borghese, or (if you don't mind buying hybrid seed) the fantastic "Fresh Salsa" from Burpees- you'll get good yields of catsup or other sauces.

I grow a few plants of a big heirloom "beefsteak type" called Pantano Romanesco. They're incredible- probably the best flavor ever, and SO tender that you'll never see them even at a farmers' market- you can't pick them by hand, because your fingers will go right through the fruit. You have to cut them off the plant, and then you can't stack them more than a couple layers deep in the baskets, or they'll crush.

But they're worth every bit of the little extra trouble, because if you add even a few fruits to soup, sauces, or ketchup, it will make a huge difference in flavor, without adding too much extra water to boil away.

Summerthyme

[night driver]

Y'knpw gang, if yer under 60 yah don't have to say it as "tomato catsup" but you might want to remember that not all catsup's are tomato. OTHER veggies CAN and often WERE used.

[Hermantribe]

Davy... an awful lot depends on what variety of tomatoes you're using. If you're using beefsteak or other juicy "eating types", then yes, it can take a TON of tomatoes to cook down into a decent catsup.

If you use some good paste tomatoes- Royal Chico, Principe Borghese, or (if you don't mind buying hybrid seed) the fantastic "Fresh Salsa" from Burpees- you'll get good yields of catsup or other sauces.

I grow a few plants of a big heirloom "beefsteak type" called Pantano Romanesco. They're incredible- probably the best flavor ever, and SO tender that you'll never see them even at a farmers' market- you can't pick them by hand, because your fingers will go right through the fruit. You have to cut them off the plant, and then you can't stack them more than a couple layers deep in the baskets, or they'll crush.

But they're worth every bit of the little extra trouble, because if you add even a few fruits to soup, sauces, or ketchup, it will make a huge difference in flavor, without adding too much extra water to boil away.

Summerthyme

I bought some seeds online from CherryGal of this variety, and I'm so excited to try them! I only had a 30% germination rate, so I'm not thrilled so far, but if the flavor is as you say (and I absolutely believe you) then it's worth it! I just look at my little plants and think...grow, baby, grow!