Topic: Tomato sauce experiment

[madpower]

Instead of adding water to diloute tomato puree try using the juice from a can of fruit cocktail,it makes a good bit of difference taste and smell wise,i used aldis brand,it is not syrup its like water and not over sweet,i honestly think you will be glad you tried it

[Peripatetic Phil]

Interesting suggestion, MP.  Last night I ate steak-and-kidney pie with chips, and as I had slightly over-cooked the latter, I looked for some tomato ketchup with which to soften them.  Sadly I appeared to have run out, so I tried passata