Walnut Catsup
Origin: Tidewater Virginia
Source: Mary Randolph, 1824
Ingredients
- walnuts
- 1 quart vinegar
- 1 teaspoon cloves, pounded
- 1 teaspoon mace
- 6 cloves garlic
Instructions
- Gather the walnuts as for pickling, and keep them in salt and water the same time.
- Then pound them in a marble mortar; to every dozen walnuts put a quart of vinegar.
- Stir them well every day for a week, then put them in a bag and press all the liquor through.
- To each quart, put a tea-spoonful of pounded cloves and one of mace, with six cloves of garlic.
- Boil it fifteen or twenty minutes, and bottle it.