ketchup is what?

Question

ketchup

Answer 1

tomatoes

Answer 2

Tomato Ketchup
Ingredients
10 pounds tomato, dead-ripe
1 red bell pepper, seeded and chopped
4 large onions, chopped
1-1/2 cups cider vinegar
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1 tsp peppercorns
1 tsp whole allspice
1 tsp whole cloves
5 cinnamon sticks
1 tsp celery seed
1/2 tsp dry mustard
1/4 tsp cayenne
4 tbsp brown sugar, packed firm
3 tbsp granulated sugar
1 tsp salt


Instructions
Cut tomatoes in quarters and puree them in food processor along with bell pepper. Strain puree through a coarse sieve to remove skins and seeds. (You can dump the puree into a colander and work it through with your hands until there is nothing left in the colander but a dryish pulp of skins and seeds.) Now puree onions, combine with tomato and pepper puree, and pour into a large stainless steel or enameled kettle. Cook and stir occasionally over low heat until it is reduced by about a third and is considerably thicker.

Meanwhile put garlic, peppercorns, allspice, cloves, cinnamon, and celery seed into the vinegar in a small pot and simmer covered for 1/2 hour to steep spices in the vinegar. Pour about half the spiced vinegar through a tea strainer into the thickened tomato mixture. Stir. Also add sugar, mustard, cayenne, and salt at this point.

Here is where the tasting comes in. You can adjust any of these ingredients to suit you. You can add more spiced vinegar. Or a little plain vinegar. More or less sugar, mustard, cayenne. Just sort of tinker with it. Cook it some more, stirring often, until it looks like catsup should look. Taste and adjust again. You may notice that it looks slightly curdled. Not to worry. Hit it a lick in the food processor. Smooths right out. Pour into sterile jars leaving 1/8" of head space. Process in a boiling water bath 15 minutes.

Answer 3

A condiment made out of tomatoes

Answer 4

Mustards' life partner. Congrats to the happy couple.

Answer 5

a vegetable, according to my children. Technically , tomatoes are a fruit though.

Answer 6

A condiment.

Answer 7

a condiment made of tomatoes, water, and micellaneous other spices.

Answer 8

A food group according to my son. :)

Answer 9

tomatoes
Tomato paste
corn syrup
vinegar
salt
dehydrated onion
a few other spices

Answer 10

tomatoes, vinegar, sugar, onion, salt

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