To Make Ketchup

[ To Make Ketchup ]

Date:

Publication Format
Manuscript

Type
Food

Ingredients
Mushrooms
Salt
Jamaica Pepper Corns
Black Pepper Corns
Shallots
Ginger
Horse Raddish

Places
Nova Scotia

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


Images
Transcription

                                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

Annotations
Allspice was sometimes called Jamaican pepper.