Okay. I was s'posed to be cleaning my house. But instead. I was looking at recipes for tomato sauce. I'm a bit obsessed with traditional fare at the moment. Lemonade. Ginger beer. Tomato Sauce. I'm making mustard next.
Here it is. It sounds like Super-Nanna sauce to me! Tomatoey and spicey and vinegary. I'm making this in the coming week. Let me know how you go with yours.
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Nanna-Rific Tomato Sauce
(Like Ketchup - but Australian!)
- 10 kilos of ripe tomatoes- chopped roughly
- 2.5 kilos of granny smiths - cored and peeled and chopped roughly
- 30g of ground ginger
- 30g of whole cloves*
- 30g of whole allspice*
- 1 tsp of mace
- 30g cayenne pepper
- 1 litre white vinegar
- 1.5 kg sugar
- 8 tablespoons of salt
- 2kg chopped onions
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What to do:
Put all ingredients into a very large pan. Boil for 3.5 to 4 hours. Blend or sieve to make for a smoother consistency. Bottle in sterilised jars. Make adorable labels with smiling tomatoes on them. Give to people for Christmas! Bravo!
(If you like - add a few cloves of garlic, cumin seeds and some chilli for a bit more gusto!)
Let me know how you go - if you make some too!xx Mikes
There ws a recipe in the Age (good weekend mag) today too!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds lovely! I will definitely try it, although I might scale down the quantity a wee bit!!
ReplyDeleteHi Pip!
ReplyDeleteI made mustard a few weeks ago - and have been loving reading your traditional recipes. It's something I want to do more of myself.
I'm going to try lemon cordial next - my Grandma has a killer recipe. Let me know if you want it.
My mustard was red-wine mustard - I used a Martha Stewart recipe I found on this website: Spindles and Spices.
Check out the blog - she makes some pretty awesome hand knitted international hats. For Cats.
My mustard didn't work out too well - I didn't add all the liquid, and I think I should have, and the texture wasn't great, not smooth enough, but I think my next attempt will be much better!
Cheers,
Bella
A tip care of Nigella, If you don't have muslin or the like use a clean pop sock. Its already a little bag, you just have to tie the top!
ReplyDeleteHi Pip, I've made your nana style tomato sauce recipe and it is so yummy! Just like my own nan used to make.... but it makes me want to eat heaps of sausage rolls! Bum!! Chele x
ReplyDeleteP.S. If you have time, pretty please, could you give me a hint how I can post my links eg. 'meet me at mikes' instead of the full numbers and hoo ha? I totally understand if you are too flat out to get back to me! Your information on starting a blog has been really helpful but I fear I'm a bit slow. #)