[Sca-cooks] Curry Ketchup Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 20, Issue 125

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Greetings Ysabeau,

I have found comercial curry ketchup for sale in
german deli/stores, but I usually make my own.  I grew
up where Curry Wurst was sold on every streetcorner,
and it is still a comfort food-treat for me.

I use a goodly puddle of tomato ketchup (.5-.75 Cup?)
a sprinkle of paprika (mild, but you could do hot if
you like it) maybe .25 t, a bigger sprinkle of curry
powder (spice island in a jar) about .75 t, and
finally some worchester sauce (about 1T)  and stir it
all  together.  Experiment and find proportions you
like.  I have taken to mixing a full ketchup bottle at
a time, using a couple of tablespoons of curry and
scaling the other spices up as well.

I also found some online sources:
http://store.yahoo.com/gdcom/burcurket19o.html
http://www.ketchupworld.com/ketchupnews.html
(I have used the Hela its ok too)
http://www.dcimports.com/germany1.html

In Service
Gwen Cat




Message: 6
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:17:29 -0600
From: "ysabeau" <ysabeau at mail.ev1.net>
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] OT: on a tangential note --
"Chili Sauce"
To: oks within the SCA  <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Message-ID: <200501270917.AA104726640 at mail.ev1.net>
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I've seen many variations of chili sauce. There is the
chili sauce 
that is used in Asian recipes as either a condiment or
an 
ingredient. I had something called Chili Crabs in
Malaysia or 
Singapore that seemed to be crabs cooked in a 
tomato/chili/barbecue sauce. It was delicious and
similar to a 
Cuban recipe that my mom used to make called Crab
Shalau (phonetic 
spelling because I have no idea how to spell it). She
made it by 
cooking crabs in a combination spaghetti and barbecue
sauce (about 
half and half of the jarred variety, you'd be
surprised). It would 
be served with spaghetti, garlic bread, and a salad.
With crabs in 
the shell, we would cover an outdoor table with
newspaper and 
spend a couple of hours sitting and eating (picking
crabmeat out 
of the shells is a time consuming process). The easy
version is to 
put crabmeat in the sauce and serve over spaghetti. 

I also saw in Germany, that they have a lot of ketchup
variations -
 curry ketchup (delicious on fries), chili ketchup,
tomato 
ketchup, etc. The ketchup section at the grocery store
was almost 
as big as the salad dressing section is over here.
They also sold 
tuna fish in cans with chile sauce instead of oil or
water. I 
never tried it...It looked to be a tomato based sauce.
I have 
since seen a recipe that makes me think that the tuna
thing might 
be based on a traditional north African dish. 

As for Frito Pie...it is one of the true delicacies of
the world. 
I can't go to a football game without getting Frito
Pie. Even when 
I was in Singapore, we had Frito Pie at the games. 

BTW, if anyone has a source for curry ketchup, I would
love to 
hear about it!

Thanks,
Ysabeau





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