Favorite recipes

madddawg · August 10, 2013

There should be a sticky for this. A lot of people have a favorite recipe for their produce. Feel free to post yours here.
Here is one of mine, or should I say my grandpa. He passed away 20 yrs ago and his ketchup has not been made since that I know of. I can vaguely remember being a kid, 34ish years ago helping pick tomatoes and making this. It was an all day process cooking it down and putting it into empty/clean beer bottles. I just put it in pint mason jars.

1 gallon of tomato pulp.
2 tbsp salt
1 tbsp allspice
1 tbsp cloves
1/2 tsp red pepper
2 med onions
1 1/2 cups of sugar3/4 cup vinegar
I also add some cumin to it, I cant remember how much I put in tho.

Cook tomatoes day before and put through sieve let stand overnight. keep cool
Skim water off of top with spoon or I use a turkey baster
run onions through a blender to get a onion type of paste.
Cook all ingredients with tomato juice except for sugar and vinegar in non reactive pan. I use stainless pans. add the sugar and vinegar after sauce thickens.

Cooking it down takes a lot of time to get it thick. low to med heat. I Probably need better tomatoes. I usually use the culls from the garden. Some paste type I guess would be best.

Also while cooking it down sometimes I am able to suck some of the water out off of the bottom or sides.

I don't recommend using tomato paste to thicken it up, ruins the flavor.

shelleybean · August 10, 2013

Scroll down in the index and you will find a huge section on recipes. Good stuff!

madddawg · August 10, 2013

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Originally Posted by shelleybean

Scroll down in the index and you will find a huge section on recipes. Good stuff!

OK thanks Shelly. Saturdays are my only real time on pc and I get in a hurry sometime. Thanks

nolabelle · August 11, 2013

that ketchup recipe sounds wonderful! i think i've posted a recipe for processing and storing peppers for use in cooking. I can't remember where, though. Maybe in the pepper thread?

August 10, 2013	#1
madddawg Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: Missouri Posts: 407	Favorite recipes There should be a sticky for this. A lot of people have a favorite recipe for their produce. Feel free to post yours here. Here is one of mine, or should I say my grandpa. He passed away 20 yrs ago and his ketchup has not been made since that I know of. I can vaguely remember being a kid, 34ish years ago helping pick tomatoes and making this. It was an all day process cooking it down and putting it into empty/clean beer bottles. I just put it in pint mason jars. 1 gallon of tomato pulp. 2 tbsp salt 1 tbsp allspice 1 tbsp cloves 1/2 tsp red pepper 2 med onions 1 1/2 cups of sugar3/4 cup vinegar I also add some cumin to it, I cant remember how much I put in tho. Cook tomatoes day before and put through sieve let stand overnight. keep cool Skim water off of top with spoon or I use a turkey baster run onions through a blender to get a onion type of paste. Cook all ingredients with tomato juice except for sugar and vinegar in non reactive pan. I use stainless pans. add the sugar and vinegar after sauce thickens. Cooking it down takes a lot of time to get it thick. low to med heat. I Probably need better tomatoes. I usually use the culls from the garden. Some paste type I guess would be best. Also while cooking it down sometimes I am able to suck some of the water out off of the bottom or sides. I don't recommend using tomato paste to thicken it up, ruins the flavor. __________________ I grow a garden not just for the food I harvest, but for the creation of life itself. Johnny Cash

August 10, 2013	#2
shelleybean Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Virginia Beach Posts: 2,648	Scroll down in the index and you will find a huge section on recipes. Good stuff! __________________ Michele

August 11, 2013	#4
nolabelle Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: N.O., LA (Zone 8b) Posts: 136	that ketchup recipe sounds wonderful! i think i've posted a recipe for processing and storing peppers for use in cooking. I can't remember where, though. Maybe in the pepper thread? __________________ I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it!