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Default Cocktail sauce

"Brooklyn1" <Gravesend1> wrote in message
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> Instead of tomato sauce use tomato paste, can be diluted to taste with
> plain water and will have a stronger/truer tomato flavor than sauce.


Unfortunately tomato paste also has a very raw, acidic, almost acrid taste
when it hasn't been cooked out. For the same reason the 'happy housewife'
trick of using it as a pizza sauce base is a no-no, even though it does see
some heat.

>I
> never use ketchup in cocktail sauce (too much sugar), for acidity use
> lemon or lime juice.


Perhaps another brand or a 'lite' version of your favourite might help.