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 Elderberry juice, reduced with sweet spices (mace, ginger, pepper, cloves) and shallot. Stored to mature and used cold, a sauce for fish (Rundell 1807, Acton 1845, White 1932, etc). The name may come from that of a type of dark-red grape, now rarely grown.  Original Receipt in 'A New System Of Domestic Cookery' by 'A Lady' (Mrs. Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell) (Rundell 1807); PONTAC KETCHUP FOR FISH. Put ripe elderberries, picked from the stalk, into a stone jar, with as much strong vinegar as will cover them. Bake with the bread; and, while hot, strain. Boil the liquor with a sufficient quantity of cloves, mace, peppercorns and shalots, to give it a fine flavour. When that is obtained, put in half a pound of the finest anchovies to every quart of liquor: stir, and boil only until dissolved. When cold, put it into pint bottles, and tie double bladders over each cork. The same method should be observed for preserving all ketchups.  |
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