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well with vinegar or sweet oil, then stuff the mangoes put them on to boil in vinegar until they are green. then pour them with the vinegar in a jar fill it up with cold vinegar tie it up + set it away - _Cucumbers are done in the same way --

To make small beer Take 1 lb of hops to 6 gallons of cold water reduce it boiling to 3 gals strain it in a tub as a gallon of molases, one and 1/2 pts of yeast stir it all up together pour it in a ten gallon key, fill it up with cold water shake it well set it away to work in a warm place, when it is worked, bring it up + put clay on the bung --

To make Pastry Take 1/4 of a peck of flour, run fine a 1/2 lb of butter a little salt, make it up in to a light [tight?] paste with cold water just stiff enough to work, then roll it out + stick pieces of butter all over, and stru [strew] a little flour roll it up + roll it out again and so do nine or ten times till you have rolled in a pound + a 1/2 of butter. -

56 To make a Plumb Pudding Take a lb of suit [sic] cut in little pieces & 1 lb of raisins stoned eight eggs 1/2 the whites, the crumbs of bread, grated and a tea spoonfull of ginger, a little salt, a lb of flour a pt of milk, beat the eggs first, then pour in half the milk, beat them together & by degrees stir in the flour & bread together, then the suit spice raisins & as much milk as will mix it together very thick. Boil it five or six hours in a bag -

To make a suit Pudding Take a lb of suit cut in little pieces four eggs two spoonsfull of ginger, a spoonfull of salt, mix the eggs & flour with a pint of milk very thick & with the seasoning, mix the rest of the milk, & the suit let the batter be pretty thick & boil it two hours --

To make Ginger bread Take 3 lbs of flour 1 lb of butter rubed [sic] in very fine 2 oz's of ginger beat fine a large nutmeg grated, then take a lb of treacle a quarter of a pt of cream. make

57 them warm together & make up the bread stiff roll it out & make it up into thin cakes, cut them out with a cup or roll them round like nuts, & bake them in a slow oven

To prepare tallow for Candles Blue the water, put a handful of allum [sic] & the tallow in put them on to boil, continue to skim it until you get all the drugs from it, then take it off skim the tallow from the water, have an oven ready with a little cold water in it pour in your tallow and let it set until cold -

To make Yellow Pickle Take a lb of race ginger lay it in water all night then scrape it cut it in thin slices, sprinkle it with salt, put it out to dry, to 2 gallons of vinegar you must, prepare 1 lb of horse raddish [sic], 1 lb of gar= =lick 1 lb of black pepper 2 oz's of long peppers, all these ingredients must be prepared as above men= =tioned after all these articles are sufficiently dried put them in your jar of vinegar add to it 2 ozs of turmerics 1 lb of mustard seed 1/2 beaten you may if you please add 2 ozs of cloves & 2 ozs of mace

58 it certainly makes the pickle finer, you must put your jar in the sun & stir the contents for several days, you must pour boiling water on the articles you wish to pickle & sprinkle them well with salt & when well dried put them in your jar --

To Pickle Peaches Put the peaches in salt & water, let them remain one week then take them out, wash them in cold water, and then let them drean [sic] well, wipe them with a dry cloth, put them with some [greans^i] of pepper in a jar & pour cold vinegar to them.

To make Harvest bread Put on the hops to boil, let them boil well then take them off strain them in a crock, put enough flour to make it very thick so much so. that the spoon will stand in it stir it up well set it away untill [sic] it is a bout milk warm. every now and then stir it a little pour 1/2 pt of yeast to it stir it up well, if the weather

59 should be cool set it near the fire, after it has worked well pour it into the flour, put warm water with it stir it up in the middle of the tray - then sprinkle a little flour over it, let it stand covered up well untill it rises, then make it up with warm water, sprinkle the baskets with flour, put your bread in, let it stand until it begins to crack on the top, and then put it to bake as quick as possible.

Receipt for Cider Wine To a barrel of cider made of sound selected fruit add at the press, or soon after it is made, two gallons pure honey, and place your cider in a proper place to ferment; after the fermentation ceases rack it off into a clean cask and add two gallons of French Brandy; in the succeeding autumn. fine it as wines are generally managed and it will soon be fit for use it ripens much faster than Grape wines.