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Elderberry Ketchup
Herbal Recipe
Good use can be made of the elderberries for Elderberry Ketchup, and the following recipe will be found excellent.
Ingredients:
1 pint Elderberries
1 ounce shallots
1 blade (or pinch) mace
1/2 ounce peppercorns
1-1/2 ounce whole ginger
1 pint vinegar
Directions:
Pick the berries (which must be ripe) from the stalks, weigh and wash them.
Put them into an unglazed crock or jar, pour over the boiling vinegar and leave all night in a cool oven.
Next day, strain the liquor from the berries through a cloth tied on to the legs of an inverted chair and put it into a pan, with the peeled and minced shallots, the ginger peeled and cut up small, the mace and peppercorns. Boil for 10 minutes, then put into bottles, dividing the spices among the bottles. Cork well.
