Grape Soy

Ingredients

• 5 lbs. grapes
• 2 tablespoons allspice
• 2 tablespoons cinnamon
• 1/2 tablespoon cloves
• 1/2 tablespoon grated nutmeg
• 3 cups of sugar (heaped)
• 2 cups vinegar

Method

1. 1

   Simmer grapes until soft, strain, and add spices and sugar.

2. 2

   Mix thoroughly and boil until thick, then bottle and seal.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 5 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household cook book (1902) by Smiley, James B[ethuel],, page 407. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 tablespoon of cloves, and 2 cups of vinegar; boil 3 hours and bottle for use. Tomato Catsup No. 2. — Take 1 bushel of tomatoes, 2 oz. salt, 1| oz. ground black pepper, 1 oz. ground cinnamon, ^ oz. ground cloves, 3 tablespoons ground mustard. Skin and slice the tomatoes, stew them until soft, rub through a sieve, and boil the pulp slowly until it is about the consistency of apple butter; then add 1 quart of vinegar to which has been added 1 cup of sugar and the above s^Dices; boil up twice, bottle and seal. WALNUT CATSUP.— Gather the nuts while they are young and tender enough to pierce with a pin easily; mash them to a soft pulp, and let them lie in salt water 2 weeks; drain them, cover with boiling vinegar, mix and mash them in it, and strain through a colander ; to each quart of the juice add 3 tablespoons each of pejDper and grated nutmeg, 2 tablespoons of powdered cloves, 1 tablespoon of ginger; boil 1 hour, and bottle when cold. The Walnut is a native of Persia. In the south of Europe it is quite largely consumed, being there considered wholesome and nutritious. The unripe fruit, when the shell walnjt. is soft, makes an excellent pickle. By boiling them in syrup a delicate sweetmeat is prepared. The oil pressed from the nut is sometimes used as a substitute for olive oil on the continent, and it is the nut oil used in painting. The matter left after the oil is extracted is nutritious for poultry or cattle. Grated walnuts are used in Spain for tarts and other dishes. SOYS. CURRANT soy.- Take i gallon of currants and add 2 cups vin- egar, 1 cup sugar (heaped), 1 tablespoon mace, the same of allspice, 1 teaspoon each of cinnamon and pepper; boil all together 1 hour, bottle and seal. Soy. — The genuine soy is made in Japan and China from the seeds of a plant called Dolichos Soja; the seeds are similar to our kidney bean, but are black. The Boy is made by boiling the seeds until soft, adding wheat or barley, allowing it to ferment, and then adding an equal amount of salt. It becomes clearer with age. CATSUPS AND SOYS 549 There are many stories of its adulteration, some of them unfortunately being too true. It is much liked with fish. The term has now come, however, to be applied to a kind of catsup. GOOSEBERRY SOY.— Take 2 cups vinegar, 3 lbs. sugar, and 6 lbs. gooseberries; boil 30 minutest QRAPE SOY. — Take 5 lbs. grapes and let them simmer gently until soft; strain through a sieve and add 2 tablespoons each of all- spice and cinnamon, ^ tablespoon each of cloves, grated nutmeg, and salt, 3 cups of sugar (heaped), and 2 cups vinegar

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