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> "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.
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>
>>> Ingredients: water, salt, hydrolysed vegetable protein, mushroom
>>> powder, acetic acid, spices, malt extract.
>>>
>>> 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."

Oh you lucky thing!!!! Hmmm I wonder how well it would scan.... <hint>
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