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Killer Catsup

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Better than store-bought ketchup. Even the kids will eat it!

Ingredients

  • 20 pounds Tomatoes
  • 2 whole Onions
  • ½ bunches Celery
  • 2 cups White Vinegar
  • 2 cups Brown Sugar
  • 10 dashes Tabasco Sauce
  • 8 teaspoons Celery Salt
  • 2 teaspoons Cinnamon
  • 2 teaspoons Cloves
  • 5 teaspoons Salt

Preparation

Core and seed the tomatoes. Process to desired texture in food processor (I like kinda chunky, so I only process to “all the big bits gone” texture).

Put onions and celery through food processor. Chop VERY small.

Put these all in a big pot and reduce by 1/3rd.

When the reduction is done, put the vinegar, brown sugar and spices (except the salt) into a separate pot and bring to a boil, whisking to mix.

Add to the tomato mixture.

Bring all to a boil. I usually then add in a big spiral of salt on the top of the mixture.

Ladle into quart jars and process in a pressure canner for 15 mintues at 10lbs pressure for sea level.

Makes 6 quarts.

Whatever you do, don’t forget the Tabasco – it’s truly the secret ingredient. If you forget it, the catsup’ll come out strange and sweet. On the plus side, you can always add it in after!

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catfeet on 3.11.2011

I started with the Ball Blue book recipie, but then took off on a flight of fancy, which was based on several other recipie books jammed together & and a call to my mom. (And a couple of beers during the spicing process, lol) I’ve got some very old relish books that I take as good “how to/process” books, and then add in things I think will taste good together.

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jennalayne on 6.3.2010

Do you mind if I ask how you came upon this recipe? I have been attempting to figure out how to reproduce ‘Watties Tomato Sauce’ & am ready to give it a go. You’re recipe sounds almost bang on. Ive always felt that Watties gave off a faint gingerbread cookie smell. I think it might be the cinnamon/cloves mixture. We’ll see if this is close. It does say ‘apple cider vinegar’ on the packaging so I might use that instead of regular.

Have you ever heard of ‘Watties’? Im wondering how you came upon this mixture of ingridients. Also very glad you did!

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