Walnut Catsup

Ingredients

• walnuts
• 1 quart vinegar
• 1 teaspoon cloves, pounded
• 1 teaspoon mace
• 6 cloves garlic

Instructions

1. Gather walnuts as for pickling and keep them in salt and water for the same duration used for pickling. Pound them in a marble mortar. To every dozen walnuts, add a quart of vinegar. Stir the mixture well every day for a week.
2. Pour the mixture into a bag and press all the liquor through. To each quart of the pressed liquid, add one teaspoonful of pounded cloves, one teaspoonful of mace, and six cloves of garlic. Boil for fifteen to twenty minutes, then bottle.