Home-made Tomato Ketchup

The tomato was not really accepted as a food in Britain until the latter part of the eighteenth century, and even then it was cooked and pulped for a soup or made into a piquant pickle with vinegar and spices. The word ‘ketchup’ comes from the Chinese, meaning ‘brine of pickled fish’, and refers to a sauce such as the Thai nam pla we have recently become familiar with. The nearest to the original that we have in Britain would actually be our anchovy sauce or essence.

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