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To Pickle Small Onions
Take small Onions as big as the top of your finger - lay them in water & salt two days. shifting them once a day, drain them in a Cloth. boyl the best Vinegar with spice, according to your palate, when your pickle is cold, put in your Onions. keep them close cover'd with a wet Bladder
Mrs Phillott
Another way
Let them be of a small size & white, parboil them & let them cool, make your pickle with half Wine & half Vinegar, put in some mace slices of Nutmeg & a little bit of ginger, boyl this up together, & scum it well, let it stand 'till cold, put in your Onions, and cover them down. if they should mother, boyl the pickle over again & scum it well, & let it be quite cold, and they will keep the year round. 
Mrs Phillott
Queen Cakes
Take a pound of unwash'd butter, and work it in four or five spoonfuls of Rose-water, & as much white wine, 'till it comes to a Cream, then have ready eight eggs (the yolks but of five) beat well, with half a Nutmeg grated, work this with your butter, & then add a pound of sugar, well dry'd & sifted, & then a pound of fine flour very well dry'd, & Lastly a pound of Currans well wash'd dry'd & pick'd, put them in small pans & bake them a little more than a quarter of an hour. you may grate sugar over them before you put them in the Oven if you like 'em plain, leave out the Currans & add as many Carraway seeds as you like. 
Mrs Ceely.

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25 To Pickle Small Onions Take small Onions as big as the top of your finger - lay them in water & salt two days. shifting them once a day, drain them in a Cloth. boyl the best Vinegar with spice, according to your palate, when your pickle is cold, put in your Onions. keep them close cover'd with a wet Bladder Mrs Phillott Another way Let them be of a small size & white, parboil them & let them cool, make your pickle with half Wine & half Vinegar, put in some mace slices of Nutmeg & a little bit of ginger, boyl this up together, & scum it well, let it stand 'till cold, put in your Onions, and cover them down. if they should mother, boyl the pickle over again & scum it well, & let it be quite cold, and they will keep the year round. Mrs Phillott Queen Cakes Take a pound of unwash'd butter, and work it in four or five spoonfuls of Rose-water, & as much white wine, 'till it comes to a Cream, then have ready eight eggs (the yolks but of five) beat well, with half a Nutmeg grated, work this with your butter, & then add a pound of sugar, well dry'd & sifted, & then a pound of fine flour very well dry'd, & Lastly a pound of Currans well wash'd dry'd & pick'd, put them in small pans & bake them a little more than a quarter of an hour. you may grate sugar over them before you put them in the Oven if you like 'em plain, leave out the Currans & add as many Carraway seeds as you like. Mrs Ceely.