A sugar-free ketchup from an 1832 American cookbook Just tomatoes, salt, garlic, and warm spices, made 44 years before commercial ketchup added the sugar. Simmered down the old way.
Modern ketchup is roughly a quarter sugar. This 1832 “tomato catsup” recipe contains zero. It’s just tomatoes, salt, spices, and garlic.
If you want to take this ketchup a step further you can do what Ms Child did…
The vegetables should be squeezed up in the hand, salt put to them, and set by for twenty-four hours.
Lydia Maria Child
It’s completely safe to leave salted tomatoes out on the counter for 24 hours.
