Okay so I was trying for Chilli and Tomato jam, I seem to have a runny sauce - Help please!

[AttillaTheHan]

That's it really. I think I may have added too much red wine vinegar. It tastes good but is far too runny. Can I salvage it?

Nothing wrong with runny.

Store it in bottles instead of jars and convince yourself it's meant to be that way.

Don't think you can thicken it.

Arse.
I was hoping to use it in christmas hampers for family but might keep it for our use only.
Thanks for reply Cadelaide.

I'm still holding out hope that someone will tell me that I can thicken it though...

Anyone?

{grasping at straws hopeful emoticon}

Well i suppose you could try boiling it to death, at the risk of ruining it altogether.

sorry Attilla, I seem to be the only person here with an interest in chilli and tomato sauce

Oi cheeky mare its not sauce its chilli slop don't you know

Yep you are completely right, I just don't want to be saddled with 4 jars of hot chilli slop.

I might try boiling it for longer.

boil it till it's reduced? other than that, bottle in bottles and pass it off as ketchup :D

boil it for longer, is it the recipe in the good food mag? Does it have jam sugar in it?

Just keep it and add to home made chilli.

Bottles of chilli sauce cost a lot!

(It sounds lovely, btw...)

Thanks for the advice.
MinkyBorage - its not the one in the good food mag. I got it online somewhere. I just used golden caster sugar amongst other things.

I think I might try to reduce it by boiling it down. Then if it doesn't make it any better I might pass it off as chilli and Tomato sauce... It does taste good though, shame its like spicy water!

Why don't you add some pectin, then try to reduce it down. Jam sugar has pectin in it. I made some chilli jam last week and had to boil it for ages before it stopped looking like water, and I used jam sugar.
pectin here
good luck

I added some more tomatoes and boiled it to death...

And it worked!! Woo hoo!
I now feel like a domestic goddess, though it
doesn't take much

Thanks for all your replies.

Aah, boiling to death, a tip of mine that often yields success

excellent, well done. The recipe I followed was a nigella one and it said to boil for 10 minutes! That bloody woman! It was at least an hour of boiling to death!