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  1. Did a quick google and found this recipe. Most of the catsup in the
    grocery store has added sugar, but this does not. Tomatoes themselves
    are not all that low carb but since it's just a condiment, you won't be
    using much:

    Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05

    Title: Tomato Catsup

    Scald, peel, and core a peck of sound, ripe
    tomatoes. Mash as if for stewing. Season with a
    tablespoonful of ground black pepper, half a
    teaspoonful of red pepper, one tablespoon each of
    cloves, mace, and allspice, and three onions cut
    very fine, with salt to taste. Put all in a
    porcelain lined kettle to boil, and when the
    tomatoes are thoroughly cooked, rub the catsup
    through a sieve to get out the seeds and pieces of
    spice. After straining return to the kettle and
    let it boil until thick as cream. Set aside and
    when cold put into pint bottles, filling each to
    within half an inch of cork, and pouring in on top
    of each a teaspoonful of salad oil. The bottles
    should be kept in a cool, dry place, resting on
    their sides.

    Does not look to be that difficult. :-)
    And this much would last quite awhile I would think...
    --
    Om.

    "My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson

  2. Or this one from Ian Loveless on the low carb recipe site
    http://www.camacdonald.com/lc/cookbookdownload.html. I like it, and it's
    simple.

    1 can tomato paste

    Put the tomato paste in a small bowl and then fill the empty can with
    white vinegar and add to the tomato paste. Add salt and pepper, paprika,
    oregano, thyme, and whatever other spices you might feel like that day.
    It actually tastes better than Heintz. Store in the fridge.

    (NOTE – if you are used to a sweeter ketchup, add artificial sweetener
    to taste)

    OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote in message ...

    Quoted message said:

    Did a quick google and found this recipe. Most of the catsup in the
    grocery store has added sugar, but this does not. Tomatoes themselves
    are not all that low carb but since it's just a condiment, you won't be
    using much:

    Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05

    Title: Tomato Catsup

    Scald, peel, and core a peck of sound, ripe
    tomatoes. Mash as if for stewing. Season with a
    tablespoonful of ground black pepper, half a
    teaspoonful of red pepper, one tablespoon each of
    cloves, mace, and allspice, and three onions cut
    very fine, with salt to taste. Put all in a
    porcelain lined kettle to boil, and when the
    tomatoes are thoroughly cooked, rub the catsup
    through a sieve to get out the seeds and pieces of
    spice. After straining return to the kettle and
    let it boil until thick as cream. Set aside and
    when cold put into pint bottles, filling each to
    within half an inch of cork, and pouring in on top
    of each a teaspoonful of salad oil. The bottles
    should be kept in a cool, dry place, resting on
    their sides.

    Does not look to be that difficult. :-)
    And this much would last quite awhile I would think...
    --
    Om.

    "My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack


    Nicholson

  3. That is even simpler. Thanks!

    In article <[email hidden]>,

    Cheri' gserviceatinreachdotcom said:

    Or this one from Ian Loveless on the low carb recipe site
    http://www.camacdonald.com/lc/cookbookdownload.html. I like it, and it's
    simple.

    1 can tomato paste

    Put the tomato paste in a small bowl and then fill the empty can with
    white vinegar and add to the tomato paste. Add salt and pepper, paprika,
    oregano, thyme, and whatever other spices you might feel like that day.
    It actually tastes better than Heintz. Store in the fridge.

    (NOTE – if you are used to a sweeter ketchup, add artificial sweetener
    to taste)

    OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote in message ...

    Quoted message said:

    Did a quick google and found this recipe. Most of the catsup in the
    grocery store has added sugar, but this does not. Tomatoes themselves
    are not all that low carb but since it's just a condiment, you won't be
    using much:

    Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05

    Title: Tomato Catsup

    Scald, peel, and core a peck of sound, ripe
    tomatoes. Mash as if for stewing. Season with a
    tablespoonful of ground black pepper, half a
    teaspoonful of red pepper, one tablespoon each of
    cloves, mace, and allspice, and three onions cut
    very fine, with salt to taste. Put all in a
    porcelain lined kettle to boil, and when the
    tomatoes are thoroughly cooked, rub the catsup
    through a sieve to get out the seeds and pieces of
    spice. After straining return to the kettle and
    let it boil until thick as cream. Set aside and
    when cold put into pint bottles, filling each to
    within half an inch of cork, and pouring in on top
    of each a teaspoonful of salad oil. The bottles
    should be kept in a cool, dry place, resting on
    their sides.

    Does not look to be that difficult. :-)
    And this much would last quite awhile I would think...
    --


    --
    Om.

    "My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson

  4. Cheri said:


    Or this one from Ian Loveless on the low carb recipe site
    http://www.camacdonald.com/lc/cookbookdownload.html. I like it, and it's
    simple.

    1 can tomato paste

    Put the tomato paste in a small bowl and then fill the empty can with
    white vinegar and add to the tomato paste. Add salt and pepper, paprika,
    oregano, thyme, and whatever other spices you might feel like that day.
    It actually tastes better than Heintz. Store in the fridge.

    (NOTE - if you are used to a sweeter ketchup, add artificial sweetener
    to taste)

    Tomato paste has added sugar, so depending on exactly how
    low you want your carbs to be this might or might not
    work.

    Has anyone started with tomato sauce and simmered it down
    to the consistancy of tomato paste? Since tomatoes have
    natural sugar I suspect the natural sugar would carmelize
    to make the resulting paste as sweet and the commercial
    stuff with added sugar. I've never had the patience to
    simmer it that long so in the end I switched to using
    mustard more often ;^)

  5. Neither of them have added sugar, at least the brands I have on hand.
    America's Choice Tomato Paste, Ingredients - tomatoes.
    Hunt's Tomato Sauce, Ingredients - tomato puree, salt, citric acid, spice,
    tomato fiber, natural flavors.

    I don't know what you would try to make tomato sauce into tomato paste,
    tomato sauce is made from tomato paste with a few additions. Some types of
    canned tomatoes have sugar added, but many do not, so you have to read the
    labels when you buy them. One of my favorite types are the ones with
    chiles, they never have sugar added.

    Doug Freyburger wrote:
    |
    | Tomato paste has added sugar, so depending on exactly how
    | low you want your carbs to be this might or might not
    | work.
    |
    | Has anyone started with tomato sauce and simmered it down
    | to the consistancy of tomato paste? Since tomatoes have
    | natural sugar I suspect the natural sugar would carmelize
    | to make the resulting paste as sweet and the commercial
    | stuff with added sugar. I've never had the patience to
    | simmer it that long so in the end I switched to using
    | mustard more often ;^)

  6. "Doug Freyburger" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    Tomato paste has added sugar, so depending on exactly how
    low you want your carbs to be this might or might not
    work.

    I just looked in my pantry and the only ingredient in my tomato paste is
    tomato pulp. Some kinds of tomato paste and tomato sauce have added sugar,
    not all.

    --
    No Husband Has Ever Been Shot While Doing The Dishes

  7. "Tomato paste has added sugar, so depending on exactly how
    | low you want your carbs to be this might or might not
    | work. "

    No cause for alarm, just another case where Doug doesn't know what he's
    talking about.

  8. None Given said:
    Doug Freyburger said:

    Tomato paste has added sugar, so depending on exactly how
    low you want your carbs to be this might or might not
    work.

    I just looked in my pantry and the only ingredient in my tomato paste is
    tomato pulp. Some kinds of tomato paste and tomato sauce have added sugar,
    not all.

    Thanks for the correction and the good news.

    A few years ago the labels for Heinz, Contadina and a couple
    of store brands listed corn syrup among their ingredients.
    I checked at the grocery this morning as I had some spare
    time and Hunts, Contadina and store brand no longer list
    types of sugar.

    Hunts lists one ingredient "tomato paste". Interesting
    that they should phrase that way. Is paste a listable
    ingredient when historically some brands did and some brands
    didn't use ingredients other than tomatoes in their recipe?
    The store brand lists one ingredient "tomatoes". Much
    better phrasing whether they end up the same or not.

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