“"Drain off the gravy, lay the bits of bacon about the rabbit in the dish: thicken the gravy with browned flour. Boil up, add a tablespoonful of tomato catsup and a glass of claret, then take from the fire."”
A cook of roughly the same moment, setting down the same dish.
10 quarts of tomatoes. 1 quart of cider vinegar. 1 pound of brown sugar. 1/4 pound of salt. 1 ounce of pepper corns. 1 ounce of whole allspice. 1/2 ounce of whole cloves. 1/2 ounce of whole ginger. 8 ounces of ground mustard. 3 small red peppers. 3 cloves of garlic. Cut the tomatoes up and put them on the fire, in the preserving kettle. Add the garlic, and cook until the tomatoes are tender,—about forty-five minutes after they begin to boil. Rub them through a sieve fine enough to keep back the seeds. Put the strained mixture on the fire, in the preserving kettle. Add the sugar, salt, and pepper. Tie the whole spice and red peppers in a piece of muslin, and put them with the other ingredients. Mix the mustard smoothly with cold water, and stir into the mixture. Simmer the catsup for an hour and a half
Sources: The passage is from Caroline Lockhart, The Dude Wrangler, free to read in full at Project Gutenberg. The recipe is from Parloa, Miss Parloa's Young Housekeeper of 1893, also free in full. Both are in the public domain in the United States. The binding above is ours — slate cloth, grapes stamp.