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Condiments Lemon Ketchup For Fish

lemon ketchup for fish
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(from The American Practical Cookery-book: Or, Housekeeping Made Easy, by a Practical Housekeeper, 1859)

Ingredients:
several lemons; rinds grated, juiced​
mace​
mustard seed​
celery seed​
cloves​
black pepper​
horseradish​
a spoonful of salt​
Instructions:
Mix and pound very fine a few spoonfuls of mace, mustard seed, celery seed, cloves, a little black pepper. Mix these spices and a little grated horseradish with the grated rind of several lemons and a spoonful of salt, together. Moisten with the juice of the lemons, and boil half an hour. Put it in a bottle, closely corked, and let it stand a month. Then strain it, and seal the bottles.​
 
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lemon ketchup for fish
(from The American Practical Cookery-book: Or, Housekeeping Made Easy, by a Practical Housekeeper, 1859)

Ingredients:
several lemons; rinds grated, juiced​
mace​
mustard seed​
celery seed​
cloves​
black pepper​
horseradish​
a spoonful of salt​
Instructions:
Mix and pound very fine a few spoonfuls of mace, mustard seed, celery seed, cloves, a little black pepper. Mix these spices and a little grated horseradish with the grated rind of several lemons and a spoonful of salt, together. Moisten with the juice of the lemons, and boil half an hour. Put it in a bottle, closely corked, and let it stand a month. Then strain it, and seal the bottles.​
Not far from a bottled lemon sauce we use in our home.
 
In my world, mace and cloves are baking spices that go together, while mustard seed and celery seed appear often in hot dressings for cole slaw. Putting them together with lemons and horseradish is a bit outside my ken, although DaveBrt reminds me they might be common in some purchased condiment we use. I can imagine all of the ingredients tasting good with fish; less sure about all of them in combination. Sounds interesting, though.
 
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