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7:24 pm
December 28, 2008
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Sloppy Joe Sauce
5 quarts tomato juice
6 green peppers (chopped)
12 onions (chopped)
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1 pint vinegar
3 Tbs. salt
1 tsp. ground cloves
Cook all ingredients for 1/2 hour. Add 2 cups brown sugar. Cook for 1 hour or so until thick. Water bath for 15 minutes. Makes 10 pints.
To make Sloppy Joes, add 1 pint sauce to 1 pound ground beef, browned. Add ground black pepper to taste.
11:14 am
December 20, 2008
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did you try this? i always thought it tasted pretty much like the kind you buy in the store. i even put it on pasta.
11:40 am
December 28, 2008
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Haven't tried it yet, and must admit that I've never tasted what comes in a can (that I know of!). This just sounded good, and something I plan to try very soon. It brought back memories of school lunches and would be something handy to have on hand. Comfort food – on a homemade wholewheat bun. Yum!
As usual, we will probably reduce the salt in it drastically. No one in this household is accustomed to eating much salt (never have), so we are overly sensative to the taste of salt in any form. At our ages, it doesn't make much sense to try to train ourselves to eat it now!
Will likely add some hot peppers to it as well because we like hot peppers and still have an abundance of them.
Now, the REAL story for why I posted it without trying it is that after spending a very long time yesterday looking everywhere for the recipe, which it turned out was already printed out and waiting to be tried, and PMing for help because I just "knew" (wrong again!) who had posted it, yadda, yadda, I wanted it to be in a place where I'd likely look FIRST next time it gets lost! Probably one of those things you had to be there to see how hilarious it was. Several of us were ROFL to the max yesterday over this recipe!
12:28 pm
December 20, 2008
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i don't remember where i got this recipe. i have had it on an index card for years. i make a batch or two every year, but have no idea where i got it.
3:05 pm
February 8, 2009
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Pete said:
As usual, we will probably reduce the salt in it drastically. No one in this household is accustomed to eating much salt (never have), so we are overly sensative to the taste of salt in any form. At our ages, it doesn't make much sense to try to train ourselves to eat it now!
If you use commercial tomato juice, it has plenty of sodium, so just scratch the added salt. As is, the recipe will have twice the recommended amount of sodium, so I would definitely cut back on the salt even if I used home canned tomato juice.
Dede
3:31 pm
December 28, 2008
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Thanks Deb and Dede for the input. I don't know where the recipe came from since there is no note on it in my file either. (Will add that if and when the source is discovered.) And, I wasn't really planning to add any salt at all, but some folks seem to get upset with those of us who just dont use it!
5:00 pm
December 28, 2008
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Am trying to figure out why I copied this recipe over here. It must have seemed like a good idea at the time, but does anyone know why, other than I lost my mind?? 
7:04 pm
October 17, 2008
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Because it's the recipe section???? 
7:30 pm
October 9, 2009
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With the exception of the brown sugar, this sounds good! Every sloppy joe I've ever eaten has tasted like candied tomato/beef on a bun and I hate them. From the mess they served in school eons ago to the mess served to me by my sister in law a month ago, they've all been uniformly awful – sugary sweet red plops on cold hamburger buns. My daughter (poor sap) dotes on them so I make them occasionally, but never with any pleasure and always with a sinking in my heart because I'm going to throw away 'perfectly good food' when, in fact, it's horrible stuff and should be flushed, rather than fed to people I love. I will be able to make them now with pride because they will be real food with real flavors, not the crap sold by Del Monte or Hunts.
I could eat this with pleasure and thank you most sincerely for the recipe. But I shall cut down drastically on the brown sugar. Sweetened meat is an abomination, in my opinion.
5:47 pm
December 28, 2008
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We tried this again today – on toasted G'ma bread. Split the toast slice into two pieces before adding the sloppy joe mixture. After eating some of it, it occurred that we could easily make this into a super gourmet sloppy joe with the addition of cheese, slide the cheese topped sloppy joe under the broiler briefly, then serve with some home made bread & butter pickles, maybe sweet & hot jalepeno pickles…
Please note also that I've added ground black pepper to the original recipe. It just seems to need it.
10:08 am
October 17, 2008
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I really need to make some of this up!!! I've got some extra juice left and sloppy joes are so easy to put together…..especially now that it's getting spring and being outside will be much more important to me than being inside cooking!! LOL!
11:16 am
December 28, 2008
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Even though this is quite good as submitted originally, next time I plan to reduce the amount of sugar, and the amount of cloves, perhaps the cinnamon as well. The cloves really do enhance the flavor, but there is just a little too much for my taste.
I added black pepper when cooking the final sloppy joes because I have heard rumors about black pepper turning bitter sometimes during the canning process. Don't want that! And it is easy enough to add some pepper during the final preparation.
7:20 pm
May 5, 2010
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Oh YUM, that recipe looks like lots of potential … I've NEVER liked canned Sloppy Joe's, but every once in awhile my hubby gets the nostalgia gleam in his eye. I'm bettin' this sauce would be equally wonderful on beans.
The two cups of sugar is a put off, but there could be a way to get around that since sugar usually translates as 'wet' ingredient. I've made brown sugar with 2 tbsps of molasses to 1 cup of white sugar … maybe one can substitute the 2 cups of brown sugar for 1/4 C molasses and 1-3/4 C concentrated apple juice. All the sweet of fruit juice without the hit of direct sugar! I may cut the sauce recipe in half to try that idea out without sinking into a large batch. Worst that happens is I use it in a large crock of beans … I can see hubby's eyes glazing already! Thank you!
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