Quotes from The Virago Book of Food: The Joy of Eating
HANNAH GLASSE
1708 - 70
FOR CAPTAINS OF SHIPS
To make Catchup to keep twenty Years.
Take a gallon of strong stale beer, one pound of anchovies washed from the pickle, a pound of shalots peeled, half an ounce of mace, half an ounce of cloves, a quarter of an ounce of whole pepper, three or four large races of ginger, two quarts of the large mushroom-flaps rubbed to pieces; cover all this close, and let it simmer till it is half wasted, then strain it through a flannel bag; let it stand till it is quite cold, then bottle it. You may carry it to the Indies. A spoonful of this is to a pound of fresh butter melted makes a fine fish-sauce, or in the room of gravy sauce. The stronger and staler the beer is, the better the catchup will be.
The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy
I think the 'room of gravy sauce' is my favorite place (I mean part!) :)
ReplyDelete*snort* You make me laugh, Audrey! Who could resist a turn of phrase such as that - I ask you?
DeleteBlast it, I'm right out of strong stale beer!
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking that half of the early deaths from years gone by were really down to food poisoning.
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