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 Needham, Mass. Eat Healthy | _ _ | Nothing would be done at all, Stay Fit | @ @ | If a man waited to do it so well, Die Anyway | v | That no one could find fault with it. demas@tiac.net | \___/ | http://www.tiac.net/users/demas