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Eli the Bearded    says:

To make Engliſh Katchup

TAKE a wide mouth'd bottle put therein a pint of the beſt white wine vinegar; then put in ten or twelve cloves of eſchalot peeled and juſt bruiſed; then take a quarter of a pint of the beſt Langoon white wine, boil it a little and put to it twelve or fourteen anchovies waſh'd and ſhred, and diſſolve them in the wine and when cold put them in the bottle; then take a quarter of a pint more of white wine and put in it mace, ginger ſliced, a few cloves, a ſpoonful of whole pepper juſt bruiſed, let them boil all a little; when near cold ſlice in almoſt a whole nutmeg, and ſome lemon peel and likewiſe put in two or three ſpoonfuls of horſe radiſh; then ſtop it cloſe and for a week ſhake it once or twice a day; then uſe it: 'Tis good to put into fiſh ſauce or any ſavoury diſh of meat; you may add to it the clear liquor that comes from muſhrooms.

The Compleat Housewife or, Accomplished gentlewoman's companion, By E. Smith, page 91 (from 1740).

Note that the Google OCR read all of the "ſ" as "f", but at the time it was standard for "s" to be "ſ" (the so-called "long s") when not at the end of a word. I think I fixed them all.
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