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Frances Collins cookbook, 1825-1846

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[__ost___am?] or [berries?] Take your berries and put them in salt & water and change the water for 3 days successively make a pickle of white wine vinegar mace nutmeg 6 shallots 6 blades of garlick some pepper [coarse?] salt and some [pottash?] Make it very strong drain your berries very dry and put them in bottles Mix your pickle well together and put over the berries or [berries?] without boiling and tie down close. [illegible] Gerkins Take 5 hundred gerkins and put in a jar of salt and water 12lb of salt to every gallon of water/ wash them out in two hours let them be drain'd very dry and put them in a jar, get a gallon of the best white wine vinegar lay on bunches of Cloves and mace one ozs of allspice Do mustard seed a stick of horse raddish cut in slices 6 bay leaves a little dill two or 3 races of ginger cut in slices a nutmeg cut in pieces and a handful of salt - boil it up and put it over the gerkins cover them close down and let them stand 24 hours then put them in your bell mettle kettle and simmer till green be careful not to let
 
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