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Peppers and Ketchup

I'm not very original at all but I like when people allow me the pleasure of copying them.  I had all those hot peppers out there turning red and soggy.  They needed something done with them.  Gabe dehydrated his with good results.  So I figured I could too.  These ones were on the smoker for three hours or so and then dried the rest of the way in my oven.  We crushed them with my little pampered chef grinder.  The sneezing and coughing going on was rather amazing!  But it made some really  nice crushed pepper.  

This isn't really actually Hunts ketchup.  This is our homemade ketchup that Keagan diligently helped me with.  We are so far,very impressed with the results.   I went out yesterday morning and picked two big bowl fulls of ripe beautiful tomatoes.  We finally got them boiled down and through the strainer and then we drained them more through three layers of cheesecloth.  And that didn't even take long.  After that we ended up with 10 cups of thick tomato paste.
We added our seasonings and let it simmer in the crock pot for about 6 hours.  Then I added the clear jell  and boiled it. Then blended it in the blender to get it as smooth as possible.  After it was all done I tasted the Hunts along side this recipe and I could hardly tell the difference.  So I probably seem silly for making ketchup as though I don't have enough to do.  The reason I did it .....I have so many tomatoes and I have a son who likes a little hamburger or fries with his ketchup.  So we go through A LOT of ketchup.  And I'm always buying the kind without the corn syrup and cringing at the evils of ketchup.  So now we have ketchup filled with ingredients I know.  I ended up with 6 pints.

Recipe for Ketchup
(not the anyone wants it but I have it recorded for me now)

10 Cups fresh tomato paste
2 C. White vinegar
2 TBSP Garlic Pwd
3 TBSP Onion Pwd.
2 tsp. all spice.
1 TBSP salt
1/2 C. sugar
2TBSP molasses

Comments

Gina said…
Sure glad you included the recipe - because I would have asked! I never thought of making ketchup in the crockpot! What a great idea!
Gina
September 11, 2013 12:20 PM
Jim said…
How much Clear-Jel?
September 12, 2013 12:36 PM
amyjane30 said…
I saw I had missed that in the recipe. Sorry. I used 1/2 cup for this batch. Seemed to be about right.
September 12, 2013 7:52 PM
Shilah Writes said…
Amy, I must say I am totally impressed. Looks perfect.
September 25, 2013 4:21 PM
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