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Tomato sauce

Cooked tomato, already a sauce, when the recipe does not want you to start from fruit.

Tomato sauce — flavoring named in the 30-book pantry · From The kitchens that still write this name in a recipe line

Tomato sauce as it appears in a working ComidaTime pantry.

The journey

Tomato sauce is a flavoring with a route. The kitchens that still write this name in a recipe line. Cooks carried the name because a pot without it tasted like a different country.

The corpus names it in 14 recipes across 3 ComidaTime kitchens, including Argentine, Greek, and Turkish. This page keeps the jar next to the hearths that still reach for it.

Public-domain botanical plate of sesame and fermented sauces from Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen, 1887.
Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen (1887) · Public domain. Source

In the kitchen

In 3 ComidaTime kitchens, including Argentine, Greek, and Turkish, Tomato sauce is not decoration. Add it where the recipe puts it: early if it needs fat and time, late if it is perfume.

Taste Tomato sauce before you empty the spoon. Fresh jars smell like themselves; tired ones smell like dust. Buy the smallest amount you will finish.

Healers and the table

Home kitchens treated Tomato sauce as food that changed a meal — appetite, warmth, or a settled stomach — the way families talk about a jar, not a clinic.

Tomato sauce on a table is supper. Traditional talk around it is not medical advice.

Traditional uses are part of the story of this spice. They are not medical advice.

Used in these ComidaTime kitchens