Matthew Skala@mattskala@mstdn.io

Next culinary adventure: mac and cheese with a special ketchup that made Tasting History's list of worst recipes ever. It'll take me a while to get together all the ingredients, but I'm committed now, because today I bought the requisite massive quantity of salted-not-oiled anchovies.

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Matthew Skala@mattskala@mstdn.io

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Okay, it's time. You know the drill: if we had $1,000,000.00, we wouldn't have to eat Kraft Dinner. But we *would* eat Kraft Dinner, or macaroni and cheese, anyway, and we'd get really expensive ketchup for it. All the fanciest Dijon Ketchup!

Well, Dijon Ketchup doesn't really exist - the recipes for it on the Net are disappointing and amount to mixing Dijon mustard with regular ketchup. But I can make fancy expensive Victorian "white ketchup," and that's today's project.

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This recipe is going to make a *lot* of ketchup. Given the difficulty of sourcing ingredients, it doesn't make sense to do it on a much smaller scale. So I had to get some mason jars to store the results.

Then it's time to weigh out ingredients.

Crushing a whole ounce of white pepper seemed like the toughest step of the recipe, until I got to the horseradish...

An ounce of white peppercorns.
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An ounce of dried mace. As Max Miller says, "That's a lot of mace!" Not actually so expensive, though, now that we can get such things on Amazon.
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A dozen litre-sized Mason jars. Probably too many and too large, but these were the only ones I could get at my local supermarket.
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A quarter ounce of whole nutmeg. Yes, I have a scale that's good for weighing things in quarter ounces. I mostly use it for industrial research purposes.
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@mattskala for some reason I'm reminded of this nightmare I grew up with:


Macaroni & Cheese, Tuna & Peas

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