English Ketchup
Yields: 1¼ liters
6 lbs mushrooms, broken into pieces
1 cup salt
2½ cups vinegar
20 salt anchovies
1 tsp ground mace
1 tsp ground cloves
1 tbsp pepper
1 slice fresh ginger
1½ cups green onions, sliced
Mix the mushrooms with the salt in a bowl,
cover and let them stand for nine days, stirring once or twice a day.
Put them into a stoneware crock, cover tightly,
and set the crock in a pan of water.
Cook over low heat for three hours.
Strain the mushrooms through a sieve into a pot,
and add the remaining ingredients to the juice
the proportions given for 5 cups of mushroom liquid.
Keeping the pot covered, boil together over
low heat until the liquid is areduced by half,
then strain it through a jelly bag.
Bottle the ketchup and cover.
Process.
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