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Making Mushroom Ketchup - 18th Century Cooking
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The Townsends channel shows how to make mushroom ketchup, a popular 18th-century sauce, in period style. It includes the history and a recipe and links to a blog post on whether George Washington used ketchup.
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HN commenters who have cooked it recommend it as a reliable, delicious recipe and a good historical explanation of pre-tomato ketchup.
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Obligatory mention of the "18th Century Cooking" YouTube channel: [LINK] The Mushroom Ketchup recipe is one I repeatedly go back to -- it's just that good: [VIDEO] I also encourage anyone who still has their elderly relatives with them to ask them for recipes they had from their era. My family keeps a common cookbook, and it's nice to be able to pull out Grandma's shrimp-dip recipe for special occasions.
Read original comment ↗If you want to learn more here is a great video with both the history and recipe for mushroom ketchup: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗Scroll down to the bottom of the article, there’s an 18th-century recipe for “mushroom ketchup.” (Along with a video on how to make it: [VIDEO] ) Be interesting to see how close it is to your wife’s modern version!
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