Which is the correct spelling......ketchup or catsup?!
Which is the correct spelling......ketchup or catsup?
ok, i've already batteled with whether ketchup or catsup goes in the fridge or not for proper storage. so now im trying to figure out which spelling is right. which is it?
Answers:
The word ketchup is derived from the Chinese ke-tsiap, a pickled fish sauce. It made its way to Malaysia where it became kechap and ketjap in Indonesia.
Seventeenth century English sailors first discovered the delights of this Chinese condiment and brought it west. Ketchup was first mentioned in print around 1690.
The Chinese version is actually more akin to a soy or Worcestershire sauce. It gradually went through various changes, particularly with the addition of tomatoes in the 1700s. By the nineteenth century, ketchup was also known as tomato soy.
Early tomato versions were much thinner with a consistency more like a soy or Worcestershire sauce.
F. & J. Heinz Company began selling tomato ketchup in 1876. By the end of the nineteenth century, tomato ketchup was the primary type of ketchup in the United States, and the decriptor of tomato was gradually dropped.
Catsup and catchup are acceptable spellings used interchangably with ketchup, however, ketchup is the way you will find it listed in the majority of cookbooks.
Ketchup Is correct spelling but some people pronunce it with more of a C so they call it Castsup but correct is Ketchup
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Ketchup (or less commonly catsup) also known as Red Sauce or Tomato Sauce is a popular condiment, usually made with ripened tomatoes. The basic ingredients in modern ketchup are tomatoes, vinegar, sugar, salt, allspice, cloves, and cinnamon. Onions, celery, and other vegetables are frequent additions. In the UK, Ireland, Australia, South Africa, Malaysia, Iran and New Zealand and the Middle East, the terms tomato sauce, red gravy or red sauce are variously used to refer to a vinegar-less variant of ketchup or the variety discussed in this article.
they are both correct but most people uce ketchup
Either spelling is correct. I think one of the brands had a trademark on the "ketchup" name many years ago. All the other brands had to call theirs "catsup". I think there were some legal contests over this. I think other brands can now use the term "ketchup" if they wish.
Catsup is more correct...
Heinz came up with the registered trademark name of Ketchup
Over time (after 17 years), it became generic, and Heinz couldn't keep sole rights to the name.
Either one - take your pick, they taste the same!
Debbi is absolutely right, in great detail. The word travels throughout SE Asia likewise: kejap, ketjap, kecap. Early forms in BrE cookery writing of the 18thC and beyond, favour 'catsup' in frequency of incidence, and inevitably this travels across the Atlantic likewise. Just pluriforms of what is/was an original Asian condiment concept.
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