Sauce: catsup vs ketchup
1 servings
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CATSUP, OR KETCHUP
Question: What is the difference between catsup and ketchup? Answer: The name comes from either a pickled Chinese fish sauce, spelled KETSIAP, or a Malay soy-based sauce spelled KETJAP. In 18th century England, the word was KETCHUP, and it meant a salty condiment made with elderberries, walnuts, mushrooms, oysters or anchovies.
In America, the term came to mean any pickled seasoning sauce made with vinegar, spices and sugar. There are early recipes for highly spiced fruit ketchups made to accompany meats.
Tomato ketchup -- the vinegary stuff that refuses to come out of the bottle until your hamburger is good and cold--is an American invention. The first commercial ketchup was produced by Heinz in 1876. Before that, homemakers were expected to make their own.
Ketchup is also sometimes written catsup, catchup or katsup. However you spell it, the bottle should be stored in the refrigerator after it is opened, and it will last indefinitely. A clean knife blade stuck into the neck of a bottle and rotated a few times will help things flow.
Source: Kitchen Q & A by Kaye Van Valkenburg Typed by Dorothy Flatman, 1995 Submitted By DOROTHY FLATMAN On 08-19-95