bearcat22
Assistant Cook
I am trying to make a sauce that is very expensive to purchase where I live. I've never tasted it. I found various Copycat recipes on the internet and chose one to scale down. It says it makes One Liter, too much for one person, so I tried to reduce the amounts by 75 per cent. My math skills are not great, maybe that is where things went wrong.
The sauce is very popular in the United Kingdom, Britain. Named HP sauce. I don't know what it is SUPPOSED to taste like. Came out very thick, and the problem is a nasty "bite" of bitter citrus flavor.
The site is Cookpad, and the original recipe is named "Tex's Copycat HP Sauce Recipe"
This is how I scaled it down:
I live in the USA, zip 20015. All groceries right now are insanely expensive. I'm in a phase of trying to make various copy cat recipes. I've never tried genuine HP sauce from Britain, but I was curious about it. A copycat recipe for A1 sauce came out very well, so I decided to give HP a try. I'm posting this to ask anyone who knows how HP should taste, smell and look to give advice. The recipe said it made one liter, too much for one person, so I cut it down by roughly 75 percent. The result was surprisingly thick, more like jam than sauce, and it has a nasty bitter tinge to the flavor, as if there were orange peel in it. I suppose I could try dumping in some sugar, but would appreciate advice/suggestions. I used Pink Lady apples.
Copycat HP Sauce makes One Cup
Roughly chop 1 apple and 1 small red onion.
Finely chop 1 clove of garlic
In a large pot, add
37.5 Ml water,
62.5 ml white wine vinegar,
half a small can of tomato paste,
62.5 ml apple juice, (4 tablespoons?)
62.5 ml orange juice,
4 Tablespoons dates,
4 Tablespoons prunes,
2 ¼ teaspoons molasses,
75 ml tamarind paste (5 tablespoons?)
1 finely chopped clove of garlic,
1 coarse chopped apple;
1 chopped red onion
Stir to blend.
Cover and bring mixture to a boil over Medium Heat.
The sauce is very popular in the United Kingdom, Britain. Named HP sauce. I don't know what it is SUPPOSED to taste like. Came out very thick, and the problem is a nasty "bite" of bitter citrus flavor.
The site is Cookpad, and the original recipe is named "Tex's Copycat HP Sauce Recipe"
This is how I scaled it down:
I live in the USA, zip 20015. All groceries right now are insanely expensive. I'm in a phase of trying to make various copy cat recipes. I've never tried genuine HP sauce from Britain, but I was curious about it. A copycat recipe for A1 sauce came out very well, so I decided to give HP a try. I'm posting this to ask anyone who knows how HP should taste, smell and look to give advice. The recipe said it made one liter, too much for one person, so I cut it down by roughly 75 percent. The result was surprisingly thick, more like jam than sauce, and it has a nasty bitter tinge to the flavor, as if there were orange peel in it. I suppose I could try dumping in some sugar, but would appreciate advice/suggestions. I used Pink Lady apples.
Copycat HP Sauce makes One Cup
Roughly chop 1 apple and 1 small red onion.
Finely chop 1 clove of garlic
In a large pot, add
37.5 Ml water,
62.5 ml white wine vinegar,
half a small can of tomato paste,
62.5 ml apple juice, (4 tablespoons?)
62.5 ml orange juice,
4 Tablespoons dates,
4 Tablespoons prunes,
2 ¼ teaspoons molasses,
75 ml tamarind paste (5 tablespoons?)
1 finely chopped clove of garlic,
1 coarse chopped apple;
1 chopped red onion
Stir to blend.
Cover and bring mixture to a boil over Medium Heat.
- Step 5: Reduce heat to a slow simmer and simmer covered for 25 - 30 minutes.
- [FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Step 6: Using a spice grinder thoroughly grind[/FONT]
- 1\8 tsp ground black peppercorns,
- 1\8 tsp cardamom,
- 1\8 tsp mustard seed,
- 1\8 tsp onion powder
- 1\8 tsp cinnamon
- unknown amount of cloves, allspice
- After simmering in step #5, use an immersion (hand) blender to pureé mixture and reduce lumps. Add ground spice mixture to pot, stir well and simmer (covered) for another 30 - 45 minutes.
- Add 75 ml cider vinegar to pot, stir to blend and return to a simmer.
- Simmer until thick.