Catsup (ketchup, if you prefer) has been on my mind since supper two nights ago. I'm starting a personal jihad against high-fructose corn syrup, which is what catsup is nowadays, so I wondered what catsup used to be and how I'd make it from scratch.
Well, it started out as a tangy tasty dipping sauce, and there are all kinds of catsup, including tomato catsup, green tomato catsup, walnut catsup, oyster catsup, mushroom catsup, gooseberry catsup, cucumber catsup, currant catsup, apple catsup, and a couple of tarted-up vinegars filed under catsup: celery vinegar and spiced vinegar. All those are from this 1887 book which serendipitously appeared at Project Gutenberg this morning: the The White House Cook Book: Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc., The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home, by Mrs. F.L. Gillette and Hugo Ziemann, Steward of the White House.
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Friday, October 9, 2009
A few books
- Our Lady in the liturgy: considerations on certain feasts of the Mother of God - 1912, Michael Barrett
- The confessions of venerable Father Augustine Baker, O.S.B - 1922, Justin McCann, O.S.B., ed.
- Holy wisdom: or, directions for the prayer of contemplation - Dom Augustine Baker, O.S.B.
- Benedictine monachism: studies in Benedictine life and rule - 1919, Dom Cuthbert Butler, O.S.B.
- The mother of Christ: or, The Blessed Virgin Mary in Catholic tradition, theology, and devotion - 1922, O. R. Vassall-Phillips, C.SS.R
- The Rule of St Benedict: A Commentary - 1921, Dom Paul Delatte, O.S.B., trans. Dom Justin McCann, O.S.B.
- The Liturgy of the Roman Missal - 1920, Dom Leduc O.S.B. and Dom Baudot O.S.B.
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