To Make Ketchup

[ To Make Ketchup ]

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Source: Miller Family Fonds
Institution: Nova Scotia Archives | Reference: PANS MG1, Vol. 693


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                                To make Ketchup

Take the largest mushrooms you can procure: mash them well
with your hand: throw some salts among them the proper
proportion is six ounces of salt to a peck of mushrooms
let them stand two nights: then strain it & press the Mushroom
as hard as possible put it into an Iron sauce pan with
Jamica & black peper corns bruised a few shalots
some ginger sliced & a little horse raddish boil it an hour
strain it.  and when cold bottle & corke it close