Crossword clues for ketchup
ketchup
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
ketchup \ketch"up\, n. [Probably of East Indian origin, because
it was originally a kind of East Indian pickles. Cf. also
Malay k[e^]chap fish sauce.
--MW10.]
A pureed table sauce made predominantly from tomatoes,
flavored with onions, sugar, salt and spices; called also
tomato ketchup. The term is also applied to pureed sauces
containing mushrooms, walnuts, etc., being called in such
cases mushroom ketchup, walnut ketchup, etc. [Written
also catsup and catchup.]
Catchup \Catch"up\, Catsup \Cat"sup\, n. [Probably of East
Indian origin, because it was originally a kind of East
Indian pickles. Cf. also Malay k[e^]chap fish sauce.
--MW10.]
A pureed table sauce made predominantly from tomatoes,
flavored with onions, sugar, salt and spices; called also
tomato ketchup. The term is also applied to pureed sauces
containing mushrooms, walnuts, etc., being called in such
cases mushroom ketchup, walnut ketchup, etc. [Written
also ketchup.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1711, said to be from Malay kichap, but probably not original to Malay. It might have come from Chinese koechiap "brine of fish," which, if authentic, perhaps is from the Chinese community in northern Vietnam [Terrien de Lacouperie, in "Babylonian and Oriental Record," 1889, 1890]. Catsup (earlier catchup, 1680s) is a failed attempt at Englishing, still in use in U.S., influenced by cat and sup.\n
\nOriginally a fish sauce, the word came to be used in English for a wide variety of spiced gravies and sauces; "Apicius Redivivus; or, the Cook's Oracle," by William Kitchiner, London, 1817, devotes 7 pages to recipes for different types of catsup (his book has 1 spelling of ketchup, 72 of catsup), including walnut, mushroom, oyster, cockle and mussel, tomata, white (vinegar and anchovies figure in it), cucumber, and pudding catsup. Chambers's Encyclopaedia (1870) lists mushroom, walnut, and tomato ketchup as "the three most esteemed kinds." Tomato ketchup emerged c.1800 in U.S. and predominated from early 20c.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) A tomato-vinegar based sauce. 2 # (context US standard of identity English) A food comprising tomato concentrate and any of vinegar, sweetener, spices, flavoring, onion(,) and garlic. 3 (context countable English) Such a sauce more generally (not necessarily based on tomatoes), or a specific brand or kind of such sauce – see usage notes below. vb. (context transitive English) To cover with ketchup.
WordNet
n. thick spicy sauce made from tomatoes [syn: catsup, cetchup, tomato ketchup]
Wikipedia
Ketchup, or catsup, is a table sauce. Traditionally, different recipes feature ketchup made of egg white, mushrooms, oysters, mussels, walnuts, or other foods, but in modern times the term without modification usually refers to tomato ketchup, Is different to tomato sauce as there is ketchup and tomato sauce in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India ("tomato sauce" can also mean something more like Passata.) It is a sweet and tangy sauce, typically made from tomatoes, a sweetener, vinegar, and assorted seasonings and spices. Seasonings vary by recipe, but commonly include onions, allspice, cloves, cinnamon, garlic, and sometimes celery. Heinz tomato ketchup is the market leader, with an 82% market share in the UK and 60% share in the US.
Tomato ketchup is often used as a condiment with various dishes that are usually served hot, including chips/fries, hamburgers, sandwiches, hot dogs, eggs, and grilled or fried meat. Ketchup is sometimes used as a basis or ingredient for other sauces and dressings, and is also used as an additive flavoring for snacks such as potato chips.
Ketchup is a condiment. Related pages:
- Banana ketchup, a prepared condiment made from mashed banana, sugar, vinegar, and spices
- Heinz Tomato Ketchup, a brand of ketchup by H. J. Heinz Company
- Vecchi Ketchup Factory in Hazlet, New Jersey produced ketchup
Ketchup may also refer to:
- Emperor Tomato Ketchup, the fourth album by UK band Stereolab, released in April 1996
- It's Only Ketchup, an album released by Tim Fite
- Ketchup as a vegetable, a proposed United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Drug Administration directive
- Las Ketchup, a Spanish 4-girl pop music group
- The Ketchup Effect, a 2004 teen Swedish movie
- " The Ketchup Song", the song "Aserejé", performed by the Spanish pop group Las Ketchup
Usage examples of "ketchup".
The powerful flavor of cumin belongs in chili powder or Tex-Mex cuisine but never ever in ketchup.
He dipped a french fry into a glob of ketchup with his right hand, and I clamped a cuff onto his left.
Satan entered, took the forbidden seat, and was promptly, ruthlessly, and gorily annihilated with a ketchup bottle.
Mix the ketchup, teriyaki sauce, Splenda, molasses, and garlic together, pour it into the cooker, cover the pot, and set it on Low.
Denise remembered something as they were ready to go and they put the leftovers in the refrigerator for the maid: ketchup and mustard, pickles, oleo, bread, a ham shank and the two inches of Almaden red that were still in the bottle.
A few rapid, practised headwaiters pushed up the trolley with grandezza, did their deft juggle with silver lamp, copper pan, wristy stuff with half a dozen bottles, a sheet of flame immediately doused with a watery juice of Maggi and ketchup, and much flicking of napkins.
The spicier varieties, usually designer ketchups, are zesty on a plastic spoon but obscure the loveliness of a crisp French fry, which the blander, mainstream brands perfectly complement.
After the ketchup and marshmallow mix-up, Gabe was almost afraid to ask.
One of these displays was to feature a grisly operation, and the fake body out of which the fake doctors would haul gobs of viscera and ketchup was already sculpted in place.
Ketchup is nothing more or less than a cold, thick, bright crimson, sweet, spicy, acidic, cooked, and strained tomato sauce made with vinegar, sugar, and salt, and flavored with onion or garlic and spices such as cinnamon, cloves, mace, allspice, nutmeg, ginger, and cayenne.
Right then, he would have eaten grubworms if he could have gotten some ketchup to put on them.
He was slowing down now and making a ritual out of it, dipping each fry into the ketchup and licking it dry before he popped it in his mouth and swallowed.
Typical of the breed was the Revd Sylvester Graham, who equated insanity with eating ketchup and mustard, and believed that the consumption of meat would result in the sort of hormonal boisterousness that leads men to take advantage of pliant women.
Similarly, in The Manchurian Candidate, one of scores of Hollywood movies popularizing lies about McCarthy, the McCarthy figure chooses fifty-seven as the number of Communists in the government after seeing it on a bottle of Heinz ketchup.
Basko ate prime steak, Beluga caviar, Haagen-Dazs ice cream and Fritos soaked in ketchup.