M&D p.71 -- Ketjap

[Vaska]

At 10:09 AM 5/2/97 -0400, Kenneth Houghton asked: 

>     Yes, but what are the ingredients?  It's unlikely (at best) to be 
>     tomato-based. (New World fruit, after all)


The OED 1711 entry points the way: it turns out that ketjap [pronounced
ketchup, of course] is an Indonesian variant of soy sauce.  Intensely dark
brown and syrupy-thick, sweetened with palm sugar or molasses, it also
features garlic, star-anise and/or cilantro among its basic ingredients.  No
tomatoes.  Mentioned in the Epicurious Dictionary; lots of recipes on the
Internet; the Hotbot search engine has it on 230 URLs [!], quite a few of
them in either Durch or Malay.  

Vaska