"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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> "Jean B." > wrote in message
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>> sf wrote:
>>> On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 18:34:22 -0400, "Jean B." > wrote:
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>>>> I actually have some mushroom catsup at the other house, I'll try to
>>>> remember to check the details.
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>>> Thanks, I appreciate that! Where did you buy it?
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>> At a British store near here. Okay, here you go:
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>> Mushroom Ketchup... Original Recipes by Geo Watkins. Estab. 1830.
>> Meeting House. G. Costa & Co. Ltd., Aylesford, Kent ME20 7NA
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>> Ingredients: water, salt, hydrolysed vegetable protein, mushroom powder,
>> acetic acid, spices, malt extract.
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>> As I was typing this, I was thinking this could NOT be the original
>> recipe. First, hydrolysed vegetable protein? Second, I suspect that the
>> acetic acid and malt extract might have been subbed for malt vinegar?
>> Does that make sense to others?
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> See my post to sf with the original recipe. I have to say though that
> the stuff you bought made by Geo Watkins is what I use
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I have a hand-written recipe (the most beautiful copperplate) by my ex's
great, possibly great great grandmother. No quantities are given (except
for the mushrooms) and the liquor is boiled with mace, ginger, cloves,
mustard seed, whole pepper and a little mace. No salt or vinegar is added.
The final instruction: "After 3 months, boil it again and it will keep a
long time."

Graham