thudpucker wrote on Mon, 04 May 2009 17:58:26 -0700:

>> James Silverton wrote:
>>> wrote on Mon, 4 May 2009 12:36:26 -0700
>>> (PDT):
>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> I looked on the label of a small can of tomato sauce, and I
>>>> noticed that the main ingredient was tomato paste. So would
>>>> you be better off just buying paste, and adding liquid to
>>>> it? or would it not make muchdifference. I have been a
>>>> label reader for forty years, and cannotbelieve that I
>>>> never noticed this before.
>>>
>>> It's just a matter of convenience. There's less bother if a
>>> brand of sauce pleases you but you might start with the
>>> paste if you intend to add your own herbs etc.

> Dang, I didn't know that. I just tossed out the better part
> of a can of tomato paste after using a couple tablespoons to
> thicken a sauce.

You can get tubes (like tooth-paste) of tomato paste and they keep quite
well in the fridge. I routinely freeze and defrost tomato paste in small
plastic containers like those made by Glad.

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not