Tomato ketchup

Used in 2 recipes on RecipeWiki.

Tomato ketchup is the familiar thick, sweet-sour tomato sauce, seasoned with vinegar and spices. As an ingredient, it brings sweetness, acidity and a concentrated tomato flavour in one spoonful. It mixes with mayonnaise and a little sharpness into the pink sauce for Shrimp Cocktail, and it goes into the gravy of Brown Stew Fish, the Jamaican dish where fried fish is simmered in a dark, savoury sauce. Because it is already sweet and salty, taste before adding more sugar or salt. Use a standard tomato ketchup rather than a spiced or flavoured one, so the balance of the recipe holds.