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Default What exactly is 'home made'?

On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 08:51:17 -0800 (PST), A Moose in Love
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> The other day, I posted a super simple recipe for steak sauce. 'Home Made'.
> However, I used bottled wurster sauce, bottled ketchup and cider vinegar.
> Is it truly home made? If it were truly home made then I would make the worcestershire sauce myself, as well as the ketchup, all made from garden ingredients. Also I put in some hot sauce(an ingredient which I omitted when I posted the recipe)which is also bottled.
> If I add mustard, should I make mustard from mustard seed which I purchased?
> etc.
> Where do you draw the line?


If I have to put ingredients together to make something else, it's
home made. If I can open a jar, can or frozen food, heat and eat
without fussing around then it's not home made. Feel better now?


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