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Tomato Sauce- do you mean the Aussie kind or the American kind?
wrote in message >. ..
> I ask because as an Australian who speaks reasonably fluent American
> English :-) I know that the same term does not mean the same thing in
> each country. Australian "tomato sauce" is what the Americans call
> "ketchup"; whereas what the Americans call "tomato sauce" would be
> called "pasta sauce" by Australians. Who was it who first said, "Two
> countries divided by a single language"? :-)
When we first moved to Australia in the mid 60's from the USA I made a
large batch of pasta for some neighbors who normally wouldn't eat it
as it was considered a bit too foreign. for the sauce i got a large
bottle of tomato sauce which was really a sweet ketchup, what a
disaster.
Cheers Ed
> Anyway, Lisa Kendall, if you're still here and want a recipe for
> something to pour on your Four 'n' Twenty pie, grab a copy of "The CWA
> Cookery Book and Household Hints" (likely in your library system) and
> try the Tomato Sauce No 1 recipe. Tips: If you're going to do a lot,
> go to a continental store and buy a "Passe-Pomodoro", a kind of hand
> cranked machine that sieves all the seeds and skins out of the cooked
> tomatoes and apples. Makes what could be a tedious job with a hand
> sieve take mere minutes. Then, after you've sieved it, return the
> sauce to a clean pot and simmer even more to make it really thick.
> Yum, yum, yum.
> CJ
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