Mushroom Catsup
Origin: Tidewater Virginia
Source: Mary Randolph, 1824
Ingredients
- 1 peck mushrooms (flaps only, from stems)
- salt
- garlic cloves
- 1/4 ounce cloves (spice)
Instructions
- Take the flaps of the proper mushrooms from the stems, wash them, add some salt, and crush them.
- Boil them some time, then strain them through a cloth.
- Put them on the fire again with salt to your taste, a few cloves of garlic, and a quarter of an ounce of cloves pounded, to a peck of mushrooms.
- Boil it till reduced to less than half the original quantity.
- Bottle and cork it well.