Hp Sauce [Simullar]

[meatboy]

as hp sauce is mentioned reguler and the price in los.has anybody made their own and come close to the taste.i have tried many recipes and so far the best is as follows. red sauce 30%,maggi seasoning 14%,oxo cubes[stock] 10%,spices,ground cumin,cayenne pepper and brown sugar,these % were on the back of a small bottle of hp.so with all the ingred.it is hit and miss till you get that taste.there must be more of you who makes their own so please share your recips.

[Ulysses G.]

What is red sauce?

[meatboy]

What is red sauce?

sauce that is red,just for you that is [KETCHUP] OR TOMATO SAUCE] if you ever go out to buffet resturants you will see thais empty the whole bottle on their food.

[MrRed]

Don't you add some vinegar? or even lemon/lime to get the acidity up.

[Crossy]

I've not tried this but it looks promising http://www.food.com/recipe/hp-sauce-55905

You may want to add some Tamarind paste (and back off on the AllSpice) as real HP contains it

[Lite Beer]

I refuse to pay 130 Baht for a small bottle.

The instructions above mention a "Dutch Oven". I have no idea what that is.

[MrRed]

http://en.wikipedia....wiki/Dutch_oven

Old school,and not really relevant anymore.

Very easy to make at home if you have a liquidizer,cook it all up first(in any pot) then let it sit for a while then blitz it to the sauce consistency agreed 130 baht a bottle is way OTT.

These are the ingredients listed on the bottle...

water, vinegar, dates, glucose-fructose, black strap molasses, tomato paste, modified cornstarch, salt, orange juice concentrate, onion, spices, tamarind extract, apple juice concentrate, garlic, chili peppers, and mustard flour,so you could mix and match to give you a flavor that is favorable to your own taste.

[Crossy]

http://en.wikipedia....wiki/Dutch_oven

Old school,and not really relevant anymore.

Of course, my mind immediately went to the other kind of Dutch Oven, I'd not heard of the cooking type before reading those instructions

[meatboy]

i did make up 400ml bottle yesterday,i did add the spices ect.as i went along,tasting and adding,this is the total measures,250ml heinz tom.ketch,20ml maggi seasoning,5oxos,half tabl.spn.ground cumin,half tabl.spn.cayyene pepper,1tbl.spn worc.sauce,1tbl.spn thai seasoning and 3tbl.spns.brown sugar. if you cant get oxos try some alternative,dark in colour,i did use 2thai seasonings because maggi can be over powering.it came out very tasty at aprox 30-35bht.not incl.the oxos friends brought them over. a warning to anyone that has boxes of oxo cubes,when i got them out of my spice cupboard one box of 24 some small bugs had eaten through the foil and laid little white eggs in the cubes,didnt waste them scraped the eggs out.i am dam sure we will eat worse than that in los.

[bonobo]

I understand the need for certain varieties of foods and tastes from back home. FOr some of these I just knuckle down and pay it as I want the real thing (Heinz Ketchup, Welches Grape Juice, Miracle Whip, Kraft Tartar Sauce, etc.)

But if all you need is an approximate taste, then making it is fine and can be fun. However, it can take some experimentation. "Red Sauce," if it can be any ketchup or even tomato sauce, is rather all-encompassing. As ketchup is it's own recipe, using a different brand would change the flavor, much less using something different as tomato sauce.

I guess trial and error is would be the modis operendi.

[meatboy]

Don't you add some vinegar? or even lemon/lime to get the acidity up.

the actual recipe is concentrated tomato paste 30%,plus 10%vinegar,so not for it to be to acidity i used tom.ketch.ect and the sauce came out a good texture,quite thick,and at a fraction of the cost of the real thing.

another reason i cant have it to acidity i have hiatus hernia.

[theoldgit]

I've not tried this but it looks promising http://www.food.com/.../hp-sauce-55905

You may want to add some Tamarind paste (and back off on the AllSpice) as real HP contains it

Thanks for the link Crossy, I'm certainly going to give it a try.

I don't really understand economics but if the GBP and the Euro are falling in value against the THB, why are imports from those countries still very expensive? A small bottle of HP Sauce costs 85p in the UK, what's that, about 40 Baht?

[rak sa_ngop]

I quite often add balsamic vinegar to clean out the last dregs of tomato ketchup in a finished bottle. This makes a nice brown tasting sauce. Maybe with a few added spices you could approach the taste of HP sauce?

[PoorSucker]

Not even real HP sauce tastes the same any more.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2036055/HP-Sauces-recipe-secretly-changed-116-years-American-owners-Great-British-Condiment.html#ixzz1Xc7tC3wm

[meatboy]

I've not tried this but it looks promising http://www.food.com/.../hp-sauce-55905

You may want to add some Tamarind paste (and back off on the AllSpice) as real HP contains it

did you forget to say careful when tasteing, i kept adding tamarind paste to my small amount of mix and trying to get a taste, but to no avail but what it did do was clean my guts out,i had to wear a nappy