Subj : Tomatoes
To   : mark lewis
From : Bj”rn Felten
Date : Wed Jul 06 2022 21:28:57

 >>     1  500g(?) can of tomatoes

 ml> 16 or 18 ounces depending... 16 ounces is a pound so a one pound can
 ml> should be ok but slightly less than the original recipe called for...
 ml> not sure if the juices are being drained or not... if they are,
 ml> that'll also make a difference...

   Isn't it true, that even in the USA you also have the metrics on the label (albeit within parenthesis)?

   And no, no added juice. The Italian canned tomatoes are 99.5% pure tomatoes (0.5% salt for some reason, maybe it's some water from the Mediterranean Sea that's leaking in?).

   On my first attempts to make ketchup, 40 odd years ago, I used the volumes (tbsp and tsp) that I mentioned, but as I kept adjusting the recipe to make the perfect (according to my hardest critics, my family) ketchup, it was necessary to go from spoons to grams. That's the only way to, in a repeatable way, adjust the ingredients exactly.

   I kept notes all the way, so the grams recipe represents 40 years of ketchup evolution. Well, I rounded the numbers, the exact amount of all ingredients is a well guarded family secret -- kinda like the Heinz' ditto... 8-)



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