Ack! A friend ended up emailing me their neighbor's tomato ketchup recipe but I totally forgot to forward it to you until I read your post just now. SO sorry! Here it is:
Cook tomatoes, onion, and bell pepper until tender, then puree in a blender or run through a food mill. Simmer for about an hour, stirring regularly, until vegetable mixture thickens and reduces by about a half. Add salt, sugar, and bouquet garni and cook another 20-30 minutes. Add vinegar and paprika. Continue cooking and stirring until thickened. Add salt to taste. Some people also add a bit of lemon juice for more sourness.
Haha thank you! We're also waiting for the recipe from the granddaughter of the original cook. Never thought it would be so difficult to get old ketchup recipes LOL
You’ll have to share an update on this project once you’ve gotten that other recipe and then tried a few. I am wondering about this one I was sent — old recipes say things like “large tomato,” but a large tomato 50-100 years ago probably wasn’t nearly as a big as the massive GMO tomatoes we can easily procure in grocery stores. So I’m thinking 24 might be way too many. Hard to say, though.
You had better not be "parting"! Your stories are great, whether funny, reflective, educational, ... I had a wide variety that I like. I even like the long ones, but sometimes can't seem to fit in the really long ones, especially if they are very thoughtful ones - maybe thinking that deeply scares me a bit. I'm very glad you took the November challenge and I hope the ones I had to skip but left in my inbox will still be available for when life isn't so challenging. Keep writing, Dan. It's great. (And a friend of mine here was born and raised in Buffalo, too!)
Ack! A friend ended up emailing me their neighbor's tomato ketchup recipe but I totally forgot to forward it to you until I read your post just now. SO sorry! Here it is:
Two dozen big tomatoes, crushed
1 medium onion, peeled and minced
1 medium red bell pepper, seeded and chopped
1 cup sugar
1 Tbsp. salt
1 ½ cups white vinegar
1 Tbsp. paprika or cayenne pepper
Bouquet garni containing 1 tsp. mustard seed, 1 tsp. whole allspice, 1 broken cinnamon stick, and 2 tsp. celery seed
Cook tomatoes, onion, and bell pepper until tender, then puree in a blender or run through a food mill. Simmer for about an hour, stirring regularly, until vegetable mixture thickens and reduces by about a half. Add salt, sugar, and bouquet garni and cook another 20-30 minutes. Add vinegar and paprika. Continue cooking and stirring until thickened. Add salt to taste. Some people also add a bit of lemon juice for more sourness.
Haha thank you! We're also waiting for the recipe from the granddaughter of the original cook. Never thought it would be so difficult to get old ketchup recipes LOL
You’ll have to share an update on this project once you’ve gotten that other recipe and then tried a few. I am wondering about this one I was sent — old recipes say things like “large tomato,” but a large tomato 50-100 years ago probably wasn’t nearly as a big as the massive GMO tomatoes we can easily procure in grocery stores. So I’m thinking 24 might be way too many. Hard to say, though.
You had better not be "parting"! Your stories are great, whether funny, reflective, educational, ... I had a wide variety that I like. I even like the long ones, but sometimes can't seem to fit in the really long ones, especially if they are very thoughtful ones - maybe thinking that deeply scares me a bit. I'm very glad you took the November challenge and I hope the ones I had to skip but left in my inbox will still be available for when life isn't so challenging. Keep writing, Dan. It's great. (And a friend of mine here was born and raised in Buffalo, too!)
Thank you for tagging along! We'll keep going in one form or another! What part of the city is your friend from?