Condiments Kitchen Catchup

kitchen catchup
(from The Kentucky Housewife, by Lettice Bryan, 1839)

Ingredients:

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2 quarts ripe tomatoes​

salt​

1 dozen onions​

handful of horseradish​

red wine​

1/2 oz. black pepper​

1/2 oz. nutmeg​

1/2 oz. clove​

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Instructions:

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Chop fine two quarts of ripe tomatoes, sprinkle them with salt and put them into a pan with one dozen minced onions, a handful of scraped horseradish, and boil them gently for one hour, adding no water, but stirring them frequently: then strain them, put the liquid into a pan with an equal portion of red wine; add half an ounce of black pepper, half an ounce of nutmegs and half an ounce of cloves. Cover the pan and boil it gently till reduced to half the original quantity: then cool and bottle it.​