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Chili Sauce Recipe

walker — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 21:42:37 GMT

When I was growing up (50/60's), my mother made the best Chili Sauce that she would serve as a side with beef dinners. It was so good! She would spend a whole day preparing, cooking and canning it. Of all the recipes of hers that I have, I do not have this one.

This is not Chili (with beef) but a Chili SAUCE. Just wondering if anyone has an "old" recipe. I can also do a search for it.

Re: Chili Sauce Recipe

Kachina624 — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 22:32:01 GMT

@walker. I know exactly what you're talking about. My family, as I was growing up, ate that stuff by the quart. Mom made it using the recipe in the red and white BH&G cookbook. It was delicious.

I made it once when dh "surprised" me with crates of tomatoes he bought somewhere.

Let me know if you don't have access to that cookbook and I'll see if I can find it.

Re: Chili Sauce Recipe

walker — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 00:00:48 GMT

@Kachina624 ....thank you for response! I bet that is where my mother found the recipe...BH&G Cookbook. She talked about that being her first cookbook where she learned how to cook. If you find a recipe, I would love to have it. In meantime, I will research BH&G cookbooks if I can. It was good! Glad you knew it as well. Delicious memories!

Re: Chili Sauce Recipe

RedTop — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 00:18:19 GMT

I used to make/can chili sauce from end of the garden tomatoes and peppers. I heated the tomatoes and ran them thru a sieve to remove skins and seeds. Cooked this about 2 hours with chopped onions, green peppers, sugar, salt, vinegar, cinnamon and cloves, until reduced and a bit thicker. Poured into clean hot jars and water bathed 5-10 minutes.

Re: Chili Sauce Recipe

Kachina624 — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 00:29:33 GMT

@walker. Now I'm embarrassed. I went to my bookcase of cookbooks and they're all there except the BH&G. Can't imagine where it is. I haven't looked for it for years.

@RedTop. Do you have an actual recipe? Your ingredients sound like it.

I looked online and found Chile recipes.

Re: Chili Sauce Recipe

RedTop — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 01:39:14 GMT

@Kachina624

Mom and I used a recipe from a canning book when we made the chili sauce. I just remember those ingredients from making it so often; we adjusted the amount of ingredients based on the amount of tomato purée we started with.

Re: Chili Sauce Recipe

Kachina624 — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 02:04:38 GMT

@walker. I found these ingredients by googling "caning chili sauce" under a Ball Jar website. It's called Grandma's Chili Sauce. It sound about right.

Re: Chili Sauce Recipe

walker — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 11:41:33 GMT

@Kachina624 @RedTop ......thank you both for your help with finding a recipe. Those ingredients sound about right. If I try it this Fall, I'll let you know. It sure was good.

Re: Chili Sauce Recipe

Kachina624 — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 16:21:18 GMT

I'm surprised more people don't make this concoction as it's one of the yummiest condiments you can serve with beef dishes.

Grind some roast beef in a Vitamix, add mayo to taste and stir in some chili sauce for the best sandwich spread you ever ate.

It also makes a wonderful gift for friends and neighbors.

Re: Chili Sauce Recipe

AuntG — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 16:29:12 GMT

Interesting post. My mom never made chili sauce, but she canned a lot of tomatoes for chili. We had tons of horseradish in our garden. I was just cleaning my basement and found the grinder we used when we made horseradish. It made my eyes water as I put it through the grinder!

Re: Chili Sauce Recipe

RedTop — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 17:35:36 GMT

@walker @Kachina624

When I read the recipe from the Ball canning book, I knew that was not the recipe we used for our chili sauce; too many ingredients.

I dug out my Bernardin canning book and the recipe we used is from there; tomatoes, peppers, onions, hot pepper, sugar, salt, vinegar, cinnamon, cloves and celery seed. Our batch was always made with the very last of the tomatoes and peppers; we didn't grow hot peppers and Mom didn't buy/keep celery seed, so they were not in our sauce.

This recipe would be easy to make on the stovetop and then refrigerate when cool.

Re: Chili Sauce Recipe

Kachina624 — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 19:11:45 GMT

@RedTop. @walker. Also, if one doesn't want to bother with caning, the sauce can be frozen.

Re: Chili Sauce Recipe

walker — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 21:26:41 GMT

@Kachina624 ..... thanks for telling me this can be frozen. I was wondering what I would do with all of it. My mother canned but not sure I want to do that. I appreciate the tips from you and @RedTop. @AuntG ...funny about grinding the horseradish! That would clean your sinuses, eh? 😆

I better start making plans for doing this! Too bad I can't give you some if any good.....maybe I could sell it on QVC? 🤣

Re: Chili Sauce Recipe

Kachina624 — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 21:33:34 GMT

@walker. I'd definitely buy it!

Re: Chili Sauce Recipe

AuntG — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 23:22:46 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
@RedTop. @walker. Also, if one doesn't want to bother with caning, the sauce can be frozen.

I'm not sure if this is true or not, but I read on a board that someone's frozen tomatoes (or maybe a tomato based sauce) turned bitter in the freezer. Some posters mentioned not putting tomato products in self defrost freezers, because they warm up just enough to spoil tomatoes. If you have the old type of freezer, with a manual defrost, tomato based products will be fine.

Re: Chili Sauce Recipe

walker — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 23:27:31 GMT

@AuntG ....I have put a lot of tomato based items in freezer....i.e.,spaghetti sauce, and never had a problem. Interesting though...thanks. Trial and error I guess...we'll see....might not have a big seller here...haha.

Re: Chili Sauce Recipe

Sooner — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 00:03:40 GMT

@walker @AuntG @Kachina624 @RedTop

Recipe from Woman's Home Companion Cookbook, pub. 1942, from 1946 printing:

Chili Sauce

Ripe tomatoes, peeled and chopped, 4 quarts

White Onions, finely ground 3 cups

Green pepper, seeds and white removed, finely ground, 1 cup

Sweet red pepper, seeds and white removed, finely ground, 1 cup

Sugar, 2 cups

Salt, 2 tablespoons

Cayenne, 1/4 teaspoon

Whole cloves, 1 tablespoon

Whole cinnamon, 3, 3-inch sticks

Mustard seed, 1 tablespoon

Vinegar, 3 cups

Directions, condensed:

Combine vegetables, sugar, salt, and cayenne in heavy pot; cover, cook over low heat and stir until sugar dissolved. Cook slowly, stirring occasionally, about 2 hours or until mixture thickens.

Add spices tied in a square of cheesecloth, and vinegar. Cook until very thick.

Then can in steralized jars and seal at once. Makes about 5 pints.

Re: Chili Sauce Recipe

walker — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 12:05:28 GMT

@Sooner .....thank you! I am finding there are different recipes but similar. All sound good. I can still smell it simmering .....oldie but goodie recipe. I need an extra-large pan for this recipe. I think my mother used a large roaster that she would use for turkey too.

Re: Chili Sauce Recipe

Sooner — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:39:42 GMT

@walker I am thinking about trying maybe a quarter of that amount myself. Might add a dab of brownn sugar or maple syrup to half for a taste test. Also maybe some lime or lemon juice and up the heat?

Also, I would use those really good Italian roma tomatoes in a can with the thick thick sauce around them rather than messing with real tomatoes. That would reduce cooking time and guarantee you good ripe tomatoes in the winter. Or autumn!

Re: Chili Sauce Recipe

RedTop — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 18:36:57 GMT

@walker
I wouldn't even be thinking about finding a large pan and making a big batch of any chili sauce recipe until you make a single saucepan of it as a taste test. Mom and I made ours in a large pressure canner pot and split it, but I would start with a stove top batch in a 1-2 qt saucepan using crushed tomatoes or tomato puree. Stir often as it will scorch!