Catsup

Home Made Catsup by wanwu73 on Polyvore

 

 

 

If you want to see how to make catsup using fresh tomatoes, I did a post on my old blog Learning from Mom Dill Pickles and Catsup.

 

Today's is a quick pantry version and is meant to produce a smaller, on demand quantity.

 

Ingredients:

 

26 oz can tomatoes, including juice, chopped

1/4 cup onion, chopped

1/4 tsp cayenne

1/4 cup brown sugar

4 whole cloves

1/2 inch stick cinnamon broken

1/4 tsp celery seed

1 tsp salt

 

Directions:

 

1. In a heavy bottom pot, mix tomatoes, onion, and cayenne.  Bring to boiling.
2. Cook about 15 minutes.
3. Put tomatoes in blender and reduce to a juice.
4. Add sugar and return to pot.
5. Bring to a boil and simmer briskly about half an hour or until mixture is reduced by hall.
6. Meanwhile. in a small saucepan combine the vinegar, whole cloves, cinnamon and celery seed.
7. Cover; bring vinegar to a boil.  Remove from heat and let stand.
8. When the tomato mixture has reduced by half, strain the spiced vinegar into the sauce.
9. Add salt to mixture, and simmer til of desired consistency.

 

 Makes 2 cups (serving size 1 tsp)