[Sca-cooks] OT: on a tangential note -- "Chili Sauce"

[ekoogler1 at comcast.net]

And yet, oddly enough, the South Beach diet (low fat, low carb) allows you to have Chili Sauce in Phase 2, but not ketchup!

Kiri

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> Adamantius scripsit: 
> 
> > Does anyone have any insight to offer, since we've been speculating a 
> > bit about various alleged chili preparations, exactly what is the 
> > provenance and purpose of bottled "chili sauce"? 
> 
> I have a couple of recipes that call for chili sauce. One is a meat loaf, 
> with chili sauce baked on top. One is a pseudo-Oriental sauce for pork chops 
> that also includes soy sauce and honey. The brand I use is Bennett's, and it 
> does list "dried red peppers" as an ingredient, but it is heavy on the 
> pickle relish -- sort of like Thousand Island Dressing without the mayo. 
> I've tried other brands that are much more like ketchup. 
> 
> Now this is interesting. I just compared the recipes for Chili Sauce and 
> Ketchup in Joy of Cooking. They are very similar -- more green peppers and 
> sugar in the chili sauce, more spices (including hot pepper) in the ketchup. 
> And while the recipe for Thousand Island Dressing does call for chili sauce 
> or ketchup, it does *not* call for pickles! 
> 
> Cynara 
> 
> 
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