Ketchup (v)

I use ketchup mostly to make other things, like barbecue sauce.  Most store bought ketchup makes me itch, so I just make my own.  It's a lot better, I think.  It's inexpensive and fresh tasting. 

Ketchup

Ingredients:

1 small can tomato paste*

1 teaspoon onion powder

1 teaspoon garlic powder

1 Tablespoon dry mustard

2 Tablespoons molasses

1/8 cup water

1/8 cup white vinegar

Salt to taste 

Mix well = ketchup.

* to get all of your tomato paste out of the tin easily, open both ends of the can. Remove the bottom lid and carefully use the top lid to push the paste through the tin down out through the bottom into a bowl.  Discard other metal lid and voila!  All of your tomato paste in your mixing bowl. I learned this trick when I worked at The Grain Dance Bakery and I was in charge of making the pizza sauce.  Opening 20 tins of paste was a cinch using this technique!