Mushroom Catsup

Origin: Tidewater Virginia

Source: Mary Randolph, 1824

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Take the flaps of the proper mushrooms from the stems, wash them, add some salt, and crush them.
  2. Boil them some time, then strain them through a cloth.
  3. 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.
  4. Boil it till reduced to less than half the original quantity.
  5. Bottle and cork it well.

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