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So, how’s it going?
For some reason yesterday I was reading about ketchup on Wikipedia, apparently in the UK it was originally made with mushrooms instead of tomatoes, which has got me intrigued. I’m not sure I want to waste a bunch of mushrooms trying to make it, in case it’s gross. But I’ve never seen a commercial version of mushroom ketchup here before 🤔
That sounds potentially delicious though
Want to take one for the team and make some, so you can let us know if it’s good? 😁
Got a recipe?
This one seems authentic, may have to make substitutions for mushroom type:
https://www.sainsburysmagazine.co.uk/recipes/sauces/mushroom-ketchup
If I can brain my way into cutting down the total amount so I can just make a sample without having to sterilize jars etc I may give it a go
Report back if you manage to do it!
Interesting, I didn’t know that! I guess it makes sense, tomatoes are native to the Americas so wouldn’t have been in Europe until relatively recently.
Supposedly the tomato variants of ketchup didn’t appear until about a century after the other types.
The first known published tomato ketchup recipe was in 1812, but the term ‘ketchup’ first appeared in 1682.
Those are my ketchup facts for the day!
Oh wow, I was expecting it to all happen a lot earlier than that! It seems tomatoes were in the UK in the 1500s but didn’t become popular until the 1800s!
I’m guessing the varieties back then didn’t grow too well in the UK climate and would have been hard to get fresh imported tomatoes on slow ships
I’m sure there’s a climate change joke in there somewhere.
I know climate change is definitely bad… but if I could grow tropical fruit in my backyard year round it would be pretty sweet
I think the obvious answer here is move to the tropics!
If only I could, probably have to wait until the kids are grown. But by then the tropics might have moved here!
Yeah, the OG things that eventually birthed Tomato Ketchup were basically umami rich fish sauces and came from China.