Cookery and medical receipt book

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To Pickle Pork

Peck of salt to a common Pail of Water, boil it till the Skim rises take it off and let the liquor stand till cold before you pour it over the Pork. If you have [nd] have it red add 1/2 lb of Salt portion.

To make Elder Wine

a Bushel of pickd Elder Beries put into a copper vat 15 Gallon's of cold water as the water warms break the berries with your hands - let them boil a quarter of an hour put into an open tub half a hundred of course Sugar strain the liquor over it squeezing out the berries when allmost cold bake a toast hard & rub it over with yeast put it in the liquor

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and let it ferment a day or two take it the top and put your wine in an 17 Gallon Barrel if not full fill it up wih water boil and cold again, add to it 1/2 lb [race] Ginger and as much whole jamaica Pepper

To pickle mushrooms for sause

Take a Quart of the closest buttons you [can] get [...] them very clean but do not wash them sprinkle a little salt over them while you prepair to pickle thus - take a 1/4 of a pint of good Vinigar about half the quantity of [...] of [tirchory] 1/4 of an oz of white pepper the same of Ginger half a 1/4 of an oz of Cloves + a stitch of horseraddish pard to pieces with a little salt put alltogether into a sausepan let it boil a minute or two throw in the Mushrooms and let it boil very slow ten minutes take them off and pour alltogether then into a jar. add as you put them about half a 1/4 of an oz of Mace. Lay at the top of your jar a nutmeg cut into 4 - if the mushrooms are not covered the next day make a little more pickle and put over them [...] [cover] with a bladder

observing when you use any to shake the jar before you open it. 15

To pickle onions White

Take the smallest Silver onions pare them to spring water when done throw them into a sause pan of boiling salt + water. do not let the Onions boil take them off the Fire in a few minutes, drain and pat them into a cloth directly cover them close while you make the followg pickle. take as much [nh] wine Vinigar as will cover them, a small quanityt of salt, about half an oz of white pepper as much ginger 1/4 of an oz of mace as much cloves - and good pinch of horse raddish made very clean + pulld to pieces to about 3 pints of Vinigar, [nd] when cold put with your onions into jars and coverwith bladders.

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to picle Cucumbers.

take the smallest - put them into strong salt + water 24 hours. boil some good vinigar with any spice you like + horse raddish and pour hot over Cucumbers when draind + dryd from the Salt water cover them close and continue to boil up the pickle every day till they are green then tye them down with bladder