Manuscript Cookbook 210

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Pickled Onions Peel & skin onions, lay in salt water over night. Pour boiling vinegar over next morning after removing from salt water, and let stand and repeat same three times. The last time putting in red peppers with the vinegar and laying onions in jars with plenty of mustard seed

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Chili Sauce

24 ripe tomatoes, 8 onions chopped fine, 12 green peppers also chop fine, 4 cups vinegar 4 tables. salt, red pepper 1 cup sugar, boil to gether.

Chow-chow.

1 head Cauliflower, 12 small cucumbers, 2 bunches celery 3 green peppers, 1 onion, 1 green tomato cut in good size pieces sprinkle with salt and let stand over night. In the morning wash with clear water. One gal. best cider vinegar, 2 ounces mustard, ground pepper, one ounce tumeric powder. Put vinegar and spices in a kettle when boiling put in veg. cook till begin to get tender and yellow. Bottle tight

Das Gott erbarm, sieben Suppen und keine warm.

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Preserves.

Tutti-Frutti.

Put in a stone crock : 1 lb. strawberries (cleaned) 1 lb. sugar (granulated) 1 pt. brandy or rum then tie up with parchment paper let stand. Add after a few days, according to season other fruit with 1 lb. sugar. (To each lb. of fruit 1 lb. sugar.)

Curents.

Put up same way only separate. After some weeks when there is enough juice on them pour through a colender (not tin) pour juice in bottles and fruit in glass jars. Let juice enough remain to cover.

To 1/2 pt. brandy, 2 teaspoonfulls of [salycyl?] When fruit done soak silk paper in this and cover fruit and tie up with parchment paper.

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Preserve Peaches

To 1 qt. vinegar 3 lbs. sugar 6 lbs. peaches. Boil vinegar with sugar, and spices. Skim and throw in a plate full of peaches let boil 15-20 min. lay out on a platter to cool, etc. When all finished, let syrup boil a while longer Put fruit in jars and when syrup cold - pour over. After three days pour off syrup let boil and skim When cold pour over fruit [Removed?] after few days again

Cheese Straws.

One pound of flour, one pound best butter, mix with cold water until soft as bread dough. Roll out twice in one hour, roll a third time cut into shapes desired, [cut in] sprinkle with grated full cream cheese - bake in quick oven 20 min.