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Questions Doubts and Requests => Recipe Requests => Topic started by: nola276 on October 30, 2011, 10:14:12 am
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I have the following recipe, which I got off Food.com by CountryLady. I would like to make it but as a newbie, don't really know how to convert it. Can anyone help please?
Recipe is as follows:
HP SAUCE.
Ingredients:
10 tomatoes, chopped
1 cup brown sugar,
1 onion, chopped
1 lemon, sliced
1/4 cup white vinegar,
1 tablespoon salt,
1 tablespoon allspice,
1teaspoon pepper,
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce,
1/4 teaspoon hot sauce (I use Tabasco)
Directions:
1. Combine all ingredients in a dutch oven.
2. Bring to a boil, lower heat and cook, uncovered, for an hour, stirring occasionally.
3. Strain through a food mill and bottle in hot, sterilized jars.
This recipe is supposed to be really nice, as the HP Sauce recipe has been changed by the manufacturers to comply with "less salt laws". I would appreciate your help. :)
Cheers, Nola.
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Nola, I would just use the method from this Tomato Sauce recipe here (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=2311.0) on the forum.
If it is not thick enough at the end of the cooking process, just give it more time on Varoma temp with the steaming basket over the hole.
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Thank you so much. I don't have any problem with the converting of cups etc to weights and will do that, but I am really stuck when it comes to what can be whizzed together, what temperature and speed, and what length of time. Hope that comes with time. Cheers, Nola. :)
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My DH would love an HP sauce recipe. Could you let us know how you got on please. Many thanks.
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smells fantastic, taste test tomorrow night kids are coming over for a BBQ
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That looks really good Fundj, I think I'll have to give this a go.
Is the recipe from the UK? I just need to convert tablespoon measurements if so.
Julie. ;D
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nola posted the Ingredients and i followed the Tomato Sauce method here on the forum
Method
Place all ingredients into TM bowl and process on speed 8 for 30 seconds. Cook for 10 minutes on Varoma on speed 2. Scrape sides and cook for a further 40 minutes on 100c on speed 2. Process for one minute on speed 8
I Increased the speed to 3 when it had 25min left on the timer, and i did cook it for 5 extra min on 100 speed 4.
i did take notes on somethings
10 tomatoes, chopped 740g
1 cup brown sugar, 150g
1 onion, chopped 95g
1 lemon, sliced 75g
1/4 cup white vinegar, 60g
1 tablespoon salt, 20g
1 tablespoon allspice,
1teaspoon pepper,
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce,
1/4 teaspoon hot sauce (I use Tabasco)
i have changed the sugar from 200g to 150 grams
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I am going to make that, it looks delicious Uni
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i could not wait until tomorrow for the taste test , i made myself an egg roll :-))
omg its fantastic ;D
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You didn't waste any time there Uni - there you go Nola, Uni has proved that recipe works ;D
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I hope someone does try it and reduces the sugar amount
it looks red in the photo but its not, it looks like the real thing.
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Hi everyone, thank you so much for your response. Thank you Fundj for your wonderful conversion, and I am glad it tastes so good. Julie, the recipe states US Metric. I don't suppose that's necessary now that Fundj has done all the hard work. Cheers, Nola.
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Thankyou nola and Fundj. I think I'll convert the tablespoons to equal 3 tsp and see how that goes. I can always increase the amounts next time if I think it needs it. I've been and bought the tomatoes this morning, can't wait. :)
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US Metric :-)) sorry ladies i used aussie cups
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I don't suppose it really matters. Yours was awesome so I'm going to go with that :D
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OMG, well don't I feel like a right idiot! I went back to Food.com and had another look at the recipe. The US/Metric on the top of the recipe is actually a button :-)). The list I posted is the US size and if you push on metric - this is what you get:
10 tomatoes, chopped
236.59 ml brown sugar
1 onion, chopped
1 lemon, sliced
59.14 ml white vinegar
14.79 ml salt
14.79 ml allspice
4.92 ml pepper
14.79 ml Worcestershire sauce
1.23 ml hot sauce (I use Tabasco)
Sorry everyone, let's just say I had a senior's moment :D. Anyway as Fundj has made it up and given it the tick of approval, I guess her conversions are good enough for me. Cheers, Nola.
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the only thing i would change next time is a little less sugar
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knowing the wieght of the tomatoes does help 2
my tomatoes where small i used 12
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nola, don't feel silly, these sort of things can also depend on people's likes and dislikes (like fundj recommending using less sugar etc).
I asked because with spices especially an extra tsp can make all the difference and of course US and UK tbsp = 3 tsp.
I have some cooking at the moment so will report back. I used large truss tomatoes as I needed some of those for another recipe. I too am glad on having a weight, as only 4 of these weighed 870g :o, There seems to be a lot of liquid probably because of using this type of toms, usually I would use Romas. I may need to cook for longer too.
Thanks for posting this recipe, this is the sort of thing I love to make in the TM. :)
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Success! ;D
I hope you don't mind me posting what I did. :)
Taking fundj's advice I reduced the sugar, used whole black peppercorns and Sambal oelek for the hot sauce. I decided to not blitz the lemon at the beginning, instead letting it cook down in chunks to give a nicer flavour (sometimes I find a bitter taste when I blitz lemon at the beginning of things). Doing a taste test both DH and I think it's delicious and there's no over taste of sweetness, I think this is spot on for us.
Again, thanks so much for posting this. :-*
900g tomatoes, quartered
150g brown sugar
1 onion, quartered
¼ cup white vinegar
1 ½ tsp sea salt flakes
3 tsp allspice
1/2 tsp whole black peppercorns
3 tsp Worcestershire sauce (tm)
1 tsp Sambal oelek
1 lemon, ends cut off and cut into 1/8th’s
Place all ingredients except lemon into TM bowl and process 30 secs/speed 8.
Add lemon.
Cook for 10 mins/Varoma temp/Reverse + speed 2. MC off, steamer basket on lid.
Scrape down sides of bowl.
Cook for a further 40 mins/100C/Reverse + speed 2. MC off, steamer basket on lid.
I needed to cook further 10 mins/100C, then 15 mins/Varoma,
I think purely because of the toms I used, lots of liquid.
Process for 1 min/speed 10 MC on. Decant into sterilized jars.
I got approx 700ml of sauce from this
(http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii26/ragdoll128/New%20Savoury/IMG_0826.jpg)
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I didn’t blitz the lemons only because i forgot :-))but i am glad i didn’t blitz the lemons, i agree with julieo about the bitterness
julie why did you choose :-:? was it because of the lemons?
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Yes Fundj I didn't want the lemon getting broken up too much until the blitzing at the end. :)
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thanks ;D
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just to let you know it does frezze well,It doesn’t go rock hard
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Good to know, thanks Fundj. :)
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Thanks everyone, I'm making a batch this afternoon, Cheers, Nola.
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I made a batch of this yesterday and it isn't too bad - I'm a bit reserved with my comments because I'm not a fan of HP sauce, but DH and neighbour are.
I found it quite interesting to taste - first impression was of lemon, which was quite distinctive, then the other flavours took over. Next time I make this I think I would only use half a lemon, other than that, I think it is not too bad a sauce. DH hasn't tasted it yet so I'm waiting on his verdict!