I put 4 kg of allotment tomatoes into a large brimming saucepan and a slow cooker this morning with some onion celery, vinegar , sugar and spices to make ketchup , simmered for 10 hours to reduce by half , nice thick consistency, then sieved to get seeds and skins out, and am left with a really runny sauce…will need to boil it down for another few hours tomorrow to get it thick enough to be called ketchup, wife is crying due to oversensitivity to house smelling and kitchen being a bomb site. Might get a ketchup bottle amount out of it at the end, and a large electricity bill.
I make something similar by frying the tomatoes in a saucepan with a little butter, and s n p. Put it in the blender and you’ve got a nice sauce. When it cools it seems to firm up slightly on its own.
I put 4 kg of allotment tomatoes into a large brimming saucepan and a slow cooker this morning with some onion celery, vinegar , sugar and spices to make ketchup , simmered for 10 hours to reduce by half , nice thick consistency, then sieved to get seeds and skins out, and am left with a really runny sauce…will need to boil it down for another few hours tomorrow to get it thick enough to be called ketchup, wife is crying due to oversensitivity to house smelling and kitchen being a bomb site. Might get a ketchup bottle amount out of it at the end, and a large electricity bill.