Recipe book :; [manuscript].

45 East India Pickle To a gallon of the sharpest vinegar put into a jar 1/2 fill'd 1/2 ready a lb of garlick [sic] thrown in to salt water, then drained from the salt water & spread in a broad earthan [sic] pan, salt it very well & dry it before the fire or in the sun, slice a lb of horse raddish [sic], prepare it in the same man= ner, then put it in your vinegar. Take a lb of black pepper & one of long pepper let the long pepper lay in salt & water & rub it with a coarse cloth. spread it in a pan - salt it & lay it to dry, when the salt shines on it it is sufficiently dried - then put it in the vinegar. Take a lb of ginger lay it in strong brine 48 hours, then lay it in salt to dry. keep it in a cool place. brine a pint of mustard seed & 2 of termerick [sic] very finely beaten, which you must put in, also add 1/2 oz cloves & mace stir it every day.-

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Batter Pudding To 7 eggs a quart + 1/2 of milk seasoned with sugar and mace.

Keeklings [?] Tak 3 eggs some good milk a little butter some yeast: to be risen as a load of bread, when perfectly light cut them out, + fry them in fat --

English Keeklings Take the whites of three eggs some sugar some butter made up in to dough, then cut + fry in lard. a little flour to be added to the above ingredients

Dried Corn Take young roasting ears parboil them in salt water take them out cut the corn from the cob; put it on dishes, then dry it in the sun or an oven. then to be put in a bag + hang it in the air. when intended for use soak it 4 or 5 hours in boiling water before it is cooked. It requires much boiling + should be boild in new milk + water the water to be changed. --

47 Potatoe Bread. Take 11/2 pints of potatoes 5 eggs a tea cupfull of butter 1/2 tea cupfull of yeast or 1/2 pt of rich milk add to these ingredients as much flour as will make them into a soft loaf, add a little salt & make it in rolls.

Jally bun. One teacupfull of rich cream 1 of [drawn] butter & teacupfull of yeast 5 eggs a little salt make it in a loaf & set it to rise - when light bake it in a pan, from 4 to 6 hours is sufficient to rise it.

Black Cakes Take 2 lbs of flour 1 of sugar 1 of butter 6 eggs 1 cup of ginger one cup of rose water 1 pint of molases 1 lb of plumbs or currants with a tea spoonfull of pearl ash & one nutmeg, Bake it in a large pan

Chocolate Cake. The whites of 3 eggs 2 ozs of chocolate 1 lb of loaf sugar well beaten, mix it with the eggs & chocolate after they

48 are well beater grease a paper & drop them in small cakes & bake them.

To [drefs?] roasting ears Take young roasting ears grate them, beat up eggs with them minced with pepper salt & butter to be made cakes & fried.

To [drep?] tomattoes The tomatties to be pealed & sliced sprinkled with pepper & salt them fried in butter.

Rect. for Cement Reduce to the finest powder wqual quantities of [unslaked?] lime & flint [glap?] & as much litharge as both of them together the proportions to be adjusted by meas ure, when reduced to powder mix them well togather & work them up in to a thin paste with old drying oil. (boild linseed oil) This cement cement is very desinable & will grow harder in the water, when the dishes [glape's] & are mended ex pose them to sun & wind, if convenient, or put them away in a closet for a week or two to dry.

49 this cement may be kept always ready, for use, by occa sionally moisting the paste with a small quantity of oil as above described [Montifibe?] recipts How to make Coffe Grind the coffee well out the white of an egg & shell in, put water enough to mix it well, then put it in the pot, put boiling water to it & let it boil one hour.

To make good yeast. Have the flour in ^a crock, mix it with cold water until you make it a stiff batter, strain your boiling hot water to it, mix it well, pour it in your jugs stop them and set them away.

To make ^good Bread. Sift your flour, to a large quantity of flour, put one pt. of yeast, mix it up with warm water & kneed it well set it away to rise if the weather should be cold put it near the fire, in the morning, work it well before you put it to bake

To make Sausage Chop the meat fine, put it in a tub, have the pepper beat fine, cloves, salt corrander & a little saltpetre mix it well add a little warm water to make it work well