Ketchup

The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New ... · Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady · 1840
Source
The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory;: In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed.
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Ingredients (11)
Instructions (8)
  1. Put a pint of the best white wine vinegar into a wide-mouthed quart bottle.
  2. Add twelve cloves of shalots, peeled and bruised.
  3. Take a quarter of a pint of the strongest red wine and boil it a little.
  4. Wash and bone about a dozen anchovies, let them dissolve in the wine, and, when cold, put them into the vinegar bottle, stopping it close with a cork, and shaking it well.
  5. Into the same quantity of wine put a spoonful of pepper bruised, a few races of split ginger, half a spoonful of cloves bruised, and a few blades of large mace, and boil them till the strength of the spice is extracted.
  6. When the liquor is almost cold, cut in slices two large nutmegs, and when quite cold put into it some lemon-peel.
  7. Put that into the bottle, and scrape thin a large, sound horseradish root, and put that also into the bottle.
  8. Stop it down close; shake it well together every day for a fortnight, and you may then use it.
Original Text
Ketchup. Put a pint of the best white wine vinegar into a wide-mouthed quart bottle; add twelve cloves of shalots, peeled and bruised; take a quarter of a pint of the strongest red wine and boil it a little; wash and bone about a dozen anchovies, let them dissolve in the wine, and, when cold, put them into the vinegar bottle, stopping it close with a cork, and shaking it well. Into the same quantity of wine put a spoonful of pepper bruised, a few races of split ginger, half a spoonful of cloves bruised, and a few blades of large mace, and boil them till the strength of the spice is extracted. When the liquor is almost cold, cut in slices two large nutmegs, and when quite cold put into it some lemon-peel. Put that into the bottle, and scrape thin a large, sound horseradish root, and put that also into the bottle; stop it down close; shake it well together every day for a fortnight, and you may then use it.
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