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Marrow Puffs     16
Break the bones in the middle & flour them, boyl 'em half an hour, take them up & let them stand to settle, then knock the Marrow out, & let it stand to cool. make a thin Batter with flour, yolks of Eggs, fine sugar, & Orange-flower water. Stir all this together, & dip the Marrow into it & drop them into boiling Lard, or driping, & fry them not too brown. Mrs Morgan
To keep green pease all the year
Take young pease shell them and put them in the pot, when it boyls, let them have two or three boyls, then spread a Cloth on your table, & dry them very well in it, then have Bottles ready dry'd & fill them with your Pease, to the Neck, & pour over them, melted mutton suet, cork them down very close that no air can come in - set 'em in a dry place and when you use them, put them into boiling water, with a spoonful of good sugar, & a good piece of butter, & when they are enough done drain them & shake them up with more butter, they will keep 'till Christmas, or as long as you please. Mrs Morgan

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Marrow Puffs 16 Break the bones in the middle & flour them, boyl 'em half an hour, take them up & let them stand to settle, then knock the Marrow out, & let it stand to cool. make a thin Batter with flour, yolks of Eggs, fine sugar, & Orange-flower water. Stir all this together, & dip the Marrow into it & drop them into boiling Lard, or driping, & fry them not too brown. Mrs Morgan To keep green pease all the year Take young pease shell them and put them in the pot, when it boyls, let them have two or three boyls, then spread a Cloth on your table, & dry them very well in it, then have Bottles ready dry'd & fill them with your Pease, to the Neck, & pour over them, melted mutton suet, cork them down very close that no air can come in - set 'em in a dry place and when you use them, put them into boiling water, with a spoonful of good sugar, & a good piece of butter, & when they are enough done drain them & shake them up with more butter, they will keep 'till Christmas, or as long as you please. Mrs Morgan