Ketchup, or catsup, came in many varieties.  I have late 19th century
recipes for cucumber catsup, walnut catsup, tomato catsup (ripe and green),
mushroom catsup, grape catsup, currant catsup, gooseberry catsup, and oyster
catsup.

    a bottle marked ketchup with vertical faceted sides was recovered from
the HMS DeBraak (sank 1798).
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From: ned heite <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 6:28 AM
Subject: RECIPES


> When we were researching a site where catsup was bottled, we found a
> newspaper account that remarked on the "hot" nature of the product.
> To palates accustomed to Heinz red bland sauce, a reference to catsup
> as "hot" was surprising and not a little distressing.
>
> To solve the puzzle, we compared modern and nineteenth-century catsup
> recipes. Sure enough, nineteenth-century catsup was a hot sauce, not
> a vegetable (as the Reagan Maladministration tried to classify it).
> Nineteenth-century catsup bottles resembled the modern ones, but the
> product was different. Product recognition through traditional
> container shapes is an important marketing concept, but it doesn't
> necessarily mean that the product has been constant through time.
>
> This realization led to insertion of catsup recipes in our report on
> the Collins Geddes cannery, which was published with a perfectly
> straight face by DelDOT.
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