Chili Sauce.

[Puglover]

I LOVE Chili Sauce! I found this recipe on the web and decided to share it because it was so good. At first I thought "oh cmon, it can't be that good, it's so simple." It is. I'll never buy a bottle of Heinz again!.

15 Minute Chili Sauce Recipe #41673
It's spices speak for themselves -- Delicious to have with your favorite Pot Roast Or Pork Roast. It's easy to make up and can be stored in refrigerator up to a year. Can be canned & frozen. Makes a nice gift also !
by Poker
20 min | 5 min prep

SERVES 4

1 (28 ounce) can tomatoes
1 small onion, chopped
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 tablespoon salt
1 teaspoon pepper
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon allspice
1/2 teaspoon clove
Mix all ingredients together and boil slowly for 15 minutes.
DONE!

http://www.recipezaar.com/41673

[Warpy]

1. It's amazing what people in other parts of the country

call chili sauce. There's no chili in this stuff!

Around here, it goes: toast dried red peppers until they're flexible, open and seed and then soak in hot water. Put cloves of garlic, onion, oregano, and spices (cinnamon, unsweetened chocolate, whatever) to taste in a blender with the chiles and water. Buzz and cook down until it turns into a sauce.

Now that's chili sauce!

[Puglover]

2. That is really interesting. But

I am talking about this Chili Sauce and not yours. :) Thanks for reading however. You could alway chop up a serrano and add it to this and it would be just as good. But with a punch.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

4. I love chili sauce

I hesitate to admit to in some circles - not that the subject comes up very often - but the Heinz stuff in those cute little bottles has always made me totally nuts with happiness. Your recipe sounds like the Heinz product, only better.

When my current supply - yeah, I got a stash - runs out, I'll be giving your impressive recipe a try. I just used chili sauce yesterday during an out-of-control craving for Sloppy Joes. Ah, they were grand!

Thank you so much!

[Puglover]

5. Thanks for actually reading

the recipe Tangerine. It is much better then the Heinz stuff. I hope you enjoy it. :hi:

[hobbit709]

3. That's some kind of sauce

but it ain't chili sauce in these here parts. Chili means some kind of capsicum pepper is in it.

[Puglover]

7. For the record it probably is misnamed

and a midwestern thing. Think of it like Baked Alaska. :)

[Tangerine LaBamba]

10. No, it's also a Pennsylvania thing,

most notably a Pennsylvania Dutch thing.

Now I'm thinking of Chow Chow, one of God's truly great inventions.................

[Warpy]

14. Exactly, outside the southwest

they call a tomato sauce without any chile in it "chili sauce."

Out here we find that hilarious, sort of the "Welsh Rarebit" of the Americas, fake food.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

15. We find it kind of funny, too,

that people put such a narrow construction on nomenclature. It bespeaks a certain kind of sad chauvinism.

But, regional variations abound, without people making fun of those that are different from theirs.

Where I grew up, for instance, green peppers were known as "mangos." Now, I wonder what would have happened if a real mango had appeared, but the chances of that were zero to none.

Ultimately, of course, there's nothing like chili sauce - the kind the OP wrote about - when you're into Sloppy Joes. Ah, love!

[hippywife]

16. They were

mangos in our house, too. My mom made mangos, not stuffed peppers. I don't like them so I refer to them as Italian hand grenades.

I grew up in a large Italian family in Ohio.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

17. Me, the same thing in PA

Italian-Russian. LOTS of good food. But, you're the first person who "got" the mango reference. I thought it was largely confined to eastern PA.

I always hated stuffed peppers, still can't eat "mangos" without getting terminal heartburn.

[hippywife]

18. I've hated them all my life.

When I'd round the corner from the schoolbus stop, and smell them cooking, I wanted so badly to turn around and find somewhere else to eat. My parents always made us eat whatever was cooked, no options. At least they would allow me to just eat the filling without the pepper, but it still had that distinct flavor.

I figured you must be from around that area to know from mangoes. The Italian side of my family had folks who settled early in SW PA, very distant relatives whom I never met.

[Puglover]

20. Thank you!

I was trying to put my thoughts onto the keyboard here without being snarky and you handled it beautifully for me!

There is an implication above that those of us who like "Chili Sauce" don't know the difference between a bell pepper and a habanero. Heinz named the stuff Chili Sauce a long long time ago and who am I to change the name or apologize for it. The recipe given is an attempt to create the stuff easily at home without going to the store and paying 3.00 for a bottle of the original thing.

I spend a month every year in Mexico and feast on everything Mexican. I have gone through a Mole making phase that had me charring and smoking every dried pepper known to man. I make and can salsa every year in varying degrees of heat. And yes I use chili peppers! That doesn't make me feel guilty for loving "Chili Sauce".

[Heidi]

6. I think this sounds yummy!

If I can find _real_ brown sugar at the Coop this week, I might just make this on the weekend. :)

[hippywife]

8. While I've been guilty myself

in the past of being all "that's not the real ", I've learned that foods around the world are bastardized (I do not mean that maliciously!) by regional taste. tradition, and availability of ingredients.

I feel crappy so I'm in a very low, non-confrontational mood, so I'm rejecting that train of thought tonight. Except I guess I am confronting that philosophy so I guess I'm not being all that non-confrontational about it now, am I? LOL Sigh.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

9. Your last sentence made me dizzy.......

Are you all right? After writing that, you probably needed a big glass of wine.

But, there is a point to be made here and that is that in many parts of our country, there is a kind of chili sauce that doesn't necessarily contain chili peppers. A lot of them contain green peppers, which count as "peppers." You're absolutely right about regional taste, tradition, and availability of ingredients.

Not to consider that is an especially narrow and chauvinistic view, but it's good that this forum exists so that we can all find out about things like this - language and food. Two of my favorite things, by the way.

[hippywife]

11. Probably not as dizzy

as the inside of my head this week. It's been awful. Thank goodness I'm seeing the doc on Friday. The ER doc put me on two kinds of antibiotics and they are making me so nauseous and nothing tastes, smells or even remotely sounds good.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

12. Sorry to hear that

Drugs suck. Even the fun ones, like the painkillers I'm on. Besides sleeping a lot and strange food cravings, it's not that bad. But, nauseous and your taster going off - that's awful.

I hope you're better soon. Good luck.

[Gormy Cuss]

13. A suggestion for making it even closer to the Heinz style sauce

Heinz Chili sauce does have mild pepper (probably of the Bell variety) as an ingredient.

If you like it the way it is, I'm guessing that you'd find the flavor even closer to Heinz if you added a teaspoon of dehydrated bell peppers or 1/2 teaspoon of ground mild paprika. That would add a lot of flavor without turning it into a hot sauce.

[Puglover]

19. Believe it or not

Ive thought of that while making the stuff. And the dehydrated sounds like the way to go. Great idea. Thanks!