Tomato Ketchup

Life without ketchup would be a sorry thing. It hurts the sensibilities of certain cooks when you add it to a dish. But if only they realised that blobbing it about means that you can finish even a bad shepherd’s pie as if in rapturous delight!

Bear in mind when choosing the tomatoes for ketchup that bruised and battered ones (known as ‘seconds’), which should be going for a song in the market, are a wise buy.