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Making Mushroom Ketchup - 18th Century Cooking
The Townsends channel shows how to make mushroom ketchup, a popular 18th-century sauce, in period style. It includes the history and a recipe and links to a blog post on whether George Washington used ketchup.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters who have cooked it recommend it as a reliable, delicious recipe and a good historical explanation of pre-tomato ketchup.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Townsends
- Topic
- 18th century cooking
- Format
- tutorial
- Level
- intro
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Obligatory mention of the "18th Century Cooking" YouTube channel: [LINK] The Mushroom Ketchup recipe is one I repeatedly go back to -- it's just that good: [VIDEO] I also encourage anyone who still has their elderly relatives with them to ask them for recipes they …
DanAndersen on Hacker News · 2018-04
In To Make SassagesIf you want to learn more here is a great video with both the history and recipe for mushroom ketchup: [VIDEO]
scommab on Hacker News · 2022-09
In When Every Ketchup but One Went Extinct
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