Among whatever other rash promises I have made in regards to Ruby’s upcoming birthaday party – one was to make a dedicated batch of home made tomato sauce that will accompany a host of home-made savoury snacks that Ruby’s Church Guild will be making.
When tomatoes are on – wow! I get boxes of them – so I start making the relish and sauce as well as trying to sell a few and eating insane amounts!
At some point I get completely over it and start just chopping and freezing them in 6lb batches – so I can just pull a container out of the freezer like I did today to make a new batch of sauce.
My recipe is pretty basic – easy and tastes great. Not exotic, but good standard tomato sauce (ok – ketchup 🙂 )
6lb tomatoes chopped
2lb sugar
1/2 pint vinegar (I use white)(300ml)
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon allspice
2&1/2 tablespoons salt.
Dump all ingredients into a big pot and bring to boil, dissolving sugar.
Boil for 2&1/2 hours
I then run the whole lot through my little mooley to get rid of the seeds and skins, put back on stove to heat and thicken with some cornflour (cornstarch)
Pour hot into bottles that have been sterilised in the oven and you are done!
If tomato relish is more your style, click here and scroll to bottom of post!
I can’t wait until we have buckets of fat juicy tomatoes again!
Cheers!
I’m gobsmacked that you make your own ketchup. If everyone did the crap in the stores would never be used again. We don’t use enough to make this doable but how wonderful to know its so simple….just a little time is all that’s needed
Well done!
Thank-you!! I know you have storage issues, but this does keep for AGES! Two and a half wine bottles is what this recipe fills! 😀 I can’t go back to store bought now – not least because of all the dodgy additives! 🙂