What is walnut ketchup?
I have a few old cookbooks (1860s-1930s) which mention "walnut ketchup" as though it's a good thing. Elizabeth David mentions it (1950s) as though it's something to be avoided. Does anyone know what it is?
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3 Comments:
I looked it up and it appears to be a sauce/paste mixture made with green walnuts, vinegar, onion and spices. I would be interested to hear if anyone's made/seen/used this.
arm1970 at 9:12AM on 05/18/09
I've never heard of this either, but it sounded interesting. I did similar to what arm1970 did and looked it up and came across two sites that mention it.
The second site goes into a sort of first-person account of the creation process, and had the interesting line, "Use walnut ketchup to deglaze the pan or to add that certain something to vinaigrette."
I can't honestly say I know why it would be either used or avoided, but I'd love to find out!
MikeGoldense at 5:21PM on 05/18/09
ketchups were originally (british) mushroom and/or nut based. they were more pickled preserves than sauce
supposedly from chinese pickled fish sauces.
no tomatoes. americans made the concoction we now call ketchup.
dmarina at 2:52AM on 05/19/09