Tomato sauce / ketchup story

The favorite spice ketchup United States is in the 97 percent of the kitchens. Studies show ketchup can also be a powerful tool in the fight against cancer and heart disease. You may be surprised to learn that ketchup is not be limited to the varieties of tomatoes plane.

Ketchup history

The word ketchup is derived from the ke-tsiap, Chinese marinated fish sauce. He went to Malaysia, where he kechap ketjap and Indonesia.

The seventeenth century English sailors discovered the delights of Chinese spices and drove west. Ketchup mentioned in the press in 1690.

The Chinese version is actually closer to a soy or Worcestershire sauce. Gradually through many changes, especially with the addition of tomatoes in 1700. In the nineteenth century, ketchup was also known as the soy tomato.

Early versions of the tomatoes were much thinner with a consistency more like a soy or Worcestershire sauce.

F. & J. Heinz Company began selling ketchup in 1876. Late nineteenth century, ketchup was the main type of tomato sauce in the United States, and mango tomato was gradually abandoned.

However, ketchup and catch are acceptable spellings used interchangeably with ketchup, then the tomato sauce the way you find in most cookbooks.

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