[see KETCHUP.] A liquor extracted from mushrooms, tomatoes, walnuts, etc., used as a sauce. More commonly KETCHUP.
1699. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Catchup, a high East-India Sauce.
1730. Swift, Paneg. on Dean, Wks. 1755, IV. I. 142. And, for our home-bred british cheer, Botargo, catsup, and caveer.
1751. Mrs. Glasse, Cookery Bk., 309. It will taste like foreign Catchup.
1832. Veg. Subst. Food, 333. One … application of mushrooms is … converting them into the sauce called Catsup.
1845. Eliza Acton, Mod. Cookery, v. (1850), 136 (L.). Walnut catsup.
1862. Macm. Mag., Oct., 466. He found in mothery catsup a number of yellowish globular bodies.
