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Pontack elderberry sauce
An English elderberry condiment of vinegar, shallots and warm spices, historically called a catsup and tied to Pontac's Head tavern in London.
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1504 records with their sources, across 11 categories.
Fermented, enzyme-ripened and mixed seasonings328
Fruit preserves10
Legume, seed and plant-protein ferments10
Garum and fish sauces8
Adjacent and excluded7
Koji, mold starters and mold-ripened ferments4
Acid and oil pickles3
Fermented fruit and fruit-derived foods3
Vegetable lactic3
Dairy ferments2
Smoked salted and dried foods2
Cheese1
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Wojapi
Wojapi is a cooked berry sauce of the Lakota and Dakota peoples of the Northern Plains, traditionally made from pounded chokecherries and today most often made with blueberries and a starch.
South Carolina mustard barbecue sauce
South Carolina mustard barbecue sauce is a yellow-to-golden sauce built on prepared mustard, balanced with vinegar, sweetness and spice, and associated with the Midlands of the state.
Carolina vinegar and light-tomato barbecue sauce
Light tomato barbecue sauce is a thin, sharp South Carolina sauce: a vinegar and pepper base with a small amount of ketchup, sitting between the clear vinegar sauce and the sweeter tomato sauces.
Monkey gland sauce
A sweet and tangy South African condiment of fruit chutney and tomato sauce, served with grilled meat and steak. It contains no monkey gland.
Daqqus (tomato-garlic sauce)
A tomato and garlic sauce from the Gulf, blended raw and then simmered to thicken, eaten with rice.
Mint sauce
Finely chopped fresh mint steeped in a sweet and sharp liquid of white wine vinegar, sugar and water, the sauce traditionally served with roast lamb in Britain.
Amlou
Amlou is a nutty, lightly sweet Moroccan spread of roasted almonds, culinary argan oil and honey. The almonds are ground first, then loosened with oil and sweetened; the balance can range from a thick spread to a dip.
Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale di Reggio Emilia
Protected Italian vinegar made only from cooked grape must, fermented and aged in a battery of wooden barrels for at least 12 years: sweet, sharp and syrupy.
Tomato ketchup
Tomato ketchup is a smooth, sweet-sour tomato sauce whose modern form grew from an older family of savoury ketchups; this version follows a tested home-canning recipe.
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Unseasoned rice vinegar
Japanese komezu is a pale, unseasoned rice vinegar made through alcoholic and acetic fermentation; rice, water, koji and yeast shape its character.
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Roasted sesame sauce for noodles or hot pot
An untested sesame-paste sauce with soy, black vinegar, sugar, sesame oil and garlic, drafted for hot-pot dipping or noodles.
Sherry vinegar
Vinagre de Jerez is made by acetifying eligible Jerez wines and ageing the vinegar in wood. Its protected name belongs to a defined Andalusian zone and a cellar tradition joining wine, oxygen, acetic bacteria and long ageing.
Ajvar
Ajvar is a cooked Balkan pepper preserve built around roasted red peppers, peeled, drained, ground and slowly fried with oil and seasoning. Leskovac’s protected version is a pepper specialty; regional versions vary.
Smooth Heinz-style ketchup, UK-label-informed starting point
A smooth tomato ketchup formulated as a 500 g comparison batch using a UK Heinz product label as its target. This original home formula is untested and is not the company recipe or a preserving process.
Barley miso (mugi miso)
A Japanese soybean paste fermented with barley koji and salt, made mostly in Kyushu, Shikoku and western Japan. It is sweet, savoury and grainy.
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Hatay pomegranate sour (nar ekşisi)
The registered Hatay method presses pomegranate arils and slowly concentrates the strained juice. Its 100 kg source batch and experienced-producer endpoint are retained; no home-scale time or shelf-life is inferred.
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Nam pla ra sauce with mulberry leaves
Coconut sugar starts this cooked sauce, followed by shrimp paste, garlic brine and pieces, two distinct pla-ra inputs, mulberry leaves, water and later seasonings.
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Nam pla ra sauce with cane sugar
Concentrated pla-ra liquid and pla-ra ton are combined with shrimp paste, sugar and seasonings, simmered for about 30 minutes, strained and cooled.
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Nam pla ra with pickled garlic
Purchased pla ra is boiled with pickled-garlic heads and water, then seasoned, boiled again, cooled and transferred; several captioned ingredient names or amounts remain unresolved.
Yanyanku
A traditional Beninese inoculum made from fermented roselle, cotton or baobab seeds, rich in bacterial spores, added to cooked African locust beans to speed up fermentation and soften them into sonru.
Coconut chutney
A coconut chutney whose ground base is finished with a separate oil tempering of mustard, urad dal, curry leaves and spices; the author pairs it with South Indian breakfast foods and snacks.
Mitarashi sweet soy glaze
A glossy Japanese glaze thickened with starch, sugar, soy sauce and mirin. Spoon it over cooked rice dumplings while the glaze is still fluid.
Kuromitsu black sugar syrup
A dark Japanese syrup made by simmering black sugar with water and optional extra sugar. Drizzle it over mochi, ice cream or other desserts.
Goma dare sesame sauce
A creamy Japanese sesame dipping sauce with soy, rice vinegar and dashi. Gradual mixing turns the thick sesame paste into a smooth sauce.
Tonkatsu table sauce
A sweet, tangy Japanese sauce mixed from Worcestershire sauce, ketchup, oyster sauce and sugar. Serve with breaded cutlets or croquettes.
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Shio koji, rice-koji salt seasoning
A Japanese seasoning of rice koji, salt and water, left at room temperature until the koji's enzymes and its microbes turn it into a savoury, salty paste for marinades and dressings.
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Gochujang with glutinous rice and meju powder
Korea’s sweet, savoury and fiery red paste of glutinous rice, barley-malt enzymes, fermented soybean meju powder and chilli powder, matured in earthenware.
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Sugar-based apple cider vinegar
Apple vinegar made at home from whole fruit or peelings and cores, sugared and fermented first to alcohol by yeast and then to acetic acid by bacteria in open air.
Akazu (red sake-lees vinegar)
Japanese reddish-brown vinegar from sake lees matured about three years, turned to vinegar by acetic bacteria; the vinegar of Handa and Edomae sushi rice.
Ättika
A Swedish-style spirit vinegar made by fermenting neutral alcohol with live vinegar bacteria, with a separate guide to commercial ättika strengths.
Birch sap vinegar
Vinegar from spring birch sap fermented to alcohol and then acetic acid, usually with added sugar or honey because the sap is so dilute; made in Sweden and described in older eastern European accounts.