If you like, you can add cloves, mace, sliced ginger, and sliced
nutmeg. Put all these in a jug, cork tightly, shake well, and set it
out in the sun for five or six days, remembering to shake it well each
day. Then boil it for fifteen minutes, and when nearly cool, strain,
bottle, and seal the bottles.--_Mrs. A. C._
_Walnut Catsup._
Take forty black walnuts that you can stick a pin through; mash and
put them in a gallon of vinegar, boil it down to three quarts and
strain it. Then add a few cloves of garlic or onion, with any kind of
spice you like, and salt. When cool, bottle it. Have good
corks.--_Miss E. T._
_To make Catsup of Walnuts._
Bruise the walnuts (when large enough to pickle) in a mortar; strain
off the liquor and let it stand till it be clear; to every quart thus
cleared add one ounce of allspice, one ounce black pepper, one ounce
ginger bruised fine. Boil the whole about half an hour; then add one
pint best vinegar, one ounce salt, eight eschalots, or one ounce
horseradish. Let it stand to cool; then strain it again, and bottle
for use.--_Mrs. M. P._
_To make Walnut Catsup from the Leaves._
Provide a jar that will hold about three gallons. Mix the following
ingredients: common salt one pound, one-half ounce powdered cloves,
four ounces powdered ginger, one handful garlic sliced, six pods
bruised red pepper, three handfuls horseradish root, sliced. Gather
the young leaves from the walnut--cut them small. Put a layer at the
bottom of the jar; then sprinkle on some of the ingredients, and so on
with alternate layers, until the jar is packed full. Let the whole
remain in this state one night. Then fill with boiling vinegar, tie it
closely, and let it set in the sun for a fortnight. Then press out the
liquor, strain and bottle.--_Mrs. E. W._
_Bay Sauce._
Get young walnut leaves while tender. Make a mixture of the following
ingredients: one quart salt, one handful horseradish, one-half dozen
onions chopped up, two teaspoonfuls allspice, one tablespoonful black
ground pepper.
Put in a layer of the leaves, and then one of the mixture, so on till
the jar is nearly filled; cover with good cold vinegar. Put it in the
sun for a fortnight, then bottle. It will not be good for use until it
is six months old.
This is an excellent sauce for fish. It will improve it to add a
tablespoonful of ground ginger.--_Mrs. E. C. G._
_Bay Sauce._
One pound salt, one-half ounce cloves, four ounces ginger, all
powdered; three handfuls garlic, three handfuls horseradish scraped
fine, six pods of red pepper cut up fine. Gather leaves of black
walnut when young, cut them up fine; put a layer of leaves in the
bottom of a jar, then one of ingredients (mixed together), until the
jar is filled; tie it up closely and set it in the sun for two weeks;
then bottle for use. It is not good for six months. Some think two or
three large onions an addition.--_Mrs. H. D._
MUSHROOM CATSUP.
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