1899 Lemon Ketchup Recipe 🍅 - Old Cookbook Show

1899 Lemon Ketchup Recipe - The Old Cookbook Show - Dominion Cookbook
This isn't you grandmothers ketchup; well maybe it is? In the 1800s there were dozens of different ketchup / catsup recipes made from all kinds of fruit and vegetables.
This lemon ketchup recipe is...

Ingredients:
One dozen lemons, zested and juiced
½ breakfast cupful of white mustard seed (125 mL)
1 eggcupful of turmeric (30 mL)
1 eggcupful of white pepper (30 mL)
½ eggcupful cloves (15 mL)
½ eggcupful mace (15 mL)
½ small teacupful of white sugar (60 mL)
1 saltspoon cayenne (1 mL)
½ small teacupful of horseradish (60 mL)
½ small teacupful of salt (60 mL)
4 shallots

Method:
Finely grate the rind of lemons, pound the spices in a mortar, grate the horseradish.
Thoroughly blend these ingredients, the sprinkle the salt over all, extract the juice from the lemons and add to the mixture.
Allow to stand in a cool place for three or four hours.
Boil in an enamelled kettle thirty minutes, pour into a stone jar, cover tightly.
Stir every day for fourteen days, then strain, bottle and seal.


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