Re: [CH] Tomato Sauce??
Charles Demas (demas@sunspot.tiac.net)
Sat, 16 Oct 1999 21:37:07 -0400 (EDT)
On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Dave Drum wrote:
> American tomato preparations come as "sauce", "paste", and "puree". I
> just checked a can of Hunt's Tomato Sauce. The ingredient label says
> only "tomatoes" No salt, chemicals, preservatives, etc. listed.
>
> Tomato sauce is about the consistency of a medium gravy. Tomato paste
> is somewhat thicker and can be thinned to more-or-less tomato sauce
> consistency with the addition of an equal volume of water. Tomato
> puree, as you may have guessed, is as stiff as a life sentence in
> Newgate Prison. It requires at least 2X (or more) volume of water to
> thin to sauce consistency.
I think you've interchanged what tomato paste and tomato puree are.
Tomato paste is the thicker one, tomato puree is about the consistency
of ketchup.
Chuck Demas
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