HP Sauce recipe conversion.

[nola276]

OMG, well don't I feel like a right idiot!  I went back to Food.com and had another look at the recipe.  The US/Metric on the top of the recipe is actually a button .  The list I posted is the US size and if you push on metric - this is what you get:

    10 tomatoes, chopped
    236.59 ml brown sugar
    1 onion, chopped
    1 lemon, sliced
    59.14 ml white vinegar
    14.79 ml salt
    14.79 ml allspice
    4.92 ml pepper
    14.79 ml Worcestershire sauce
    1.23 ml hot sauce (I use Tabasco)


Sorry everyone, let's just say I had a senior's moment .  Anyway as Fundj has made it up and given it the tick of approval, I guess her conversions are good enough for me. Cheers, Nola.

[fundj&e]

the only thing i would change next time is a little less sugar

[fundj&e]

knowing the wieght of the tomatoes does help 2

my tomatoes  where small i used 12

[JulieO]

nola, don't feel silly,  these sort of things can also depend on people's likes and dislikes (like fundj recommending using less sugar etc). 
I asked because with spices especially an extra tsp can make all the difference and of course US and UK tbsp = 3 tsp.

I have some cooking at the moment so will report back.  I used large truss tomatoes as I needed some of those for another recipe.  I too am glad on having a weight, as only 4 of these weighed 870g  , There seems to be a lot of liquid probably because of using this type of toms, usually I would use Romas.  I may need to cook for longer too.

Thanks for posting this recipe, this is the sort of thing I love to make in the TM. 

[JulieO]

Success!  

I hope you don't mind me posting what I did.  

Taking fundj's advice I reduced the sugar, used whole black peppercorns and Sambal oelek for the hot sauce.  I decided to not blitz the lemon at the beginning, instead letting it cook down in chunks to give a nicer flavour (sometimes I find a bitter taste when I blitz lemon at the beginning of things).  Doing a taste test both DH and I think it's delicious and there's no over taste of sweetness, I think this is spot on for us.

Again, thanks so much for posting this.  

900g tomatoes, quartered  
150g brown sugar
1 onion, quartered
¼ cup white vinegar
1 ½ tsp sea salt flakes
3 tsp allspice
1/2 tsp whole black peppercorns
3 tsp Worcestershire sauce (tm)
1 tsp Sambal oelek
1 lemon, ends cut off and cut into 1/8th’s

Place all ingredients except lemon into TM bowl and process 30 secs/speed 8.
Add lemon.
Cook for 10 mins/Varoma temp/Reverse + speed 2.  MC off, steamer basket on lid.

Scrape down sides of bowl.

Cook for a further 40 mins/100C/Reverse + speed 2.  MC off, steamer basket on lid.  

I needed to cook further 10 mins/100C, then 15 mins/Varoma,

I think purely because of the toms I used, lots of liquid.

Process for 1 min/speed 10 MC on.  Decant into sterilized jars.

I got approx 700ml of sauce from this

[fundj&e]

 I didn’t  blitz the lemons only because i forgot :-))but  i am glad i didn’t blitz the lemons, i agree  with julieo about the bitterness

julie why did you choose ? was it because of the lemons?

[JulieO]

Yes Fundj I didn't want the lemon getting broken up too much until the blitzing at the end. 

[fundj&e]

thanks 

[fundj&e]

just to let you know it does frezze well,It doesn’t go rock hard

[JulieO]

Good to know, thanks Fundj. 

[nola276]

Thanks everyone, I'm making a batch this afternoon,  Cheers, Nola.

[Cuilidh]

I made a batch of this yesterday and it isn't too bad - I'm a bit reserved with my comments because I'm not a fan of HP sauce, but DH and neighbour are. 

I found it quite interesting to taste - first impression was of lemon, which was quite distinctive, then the other flavours took over.  Next time I make this I think I would only use half a lemon, other than that, I think it is not too bad a sauce.  DH hasn't tasted it yet so I'm waiting on his verdict!