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To Pickle Mushrooms
After your Mushrooms are well clean'd with a woollen Cloth in Water, boil them in Milk and Water, Eight or ten minutes, put them into the above, whilst it boyls, drain them thro' a Sieve, & put them directly into salt & water that has been boyld, yet cold, yn take them out & put them into boyld Vinegar that is cold, let them stand twenty Seven hours, get ready a pickle made of half white wine, & white wine Vinegar, whole pepper sliced Ginger & Mace, boil it some time and let it stand till cold, then strain it and put it to your Mushrooms in Glasses and pour oyl 'on the top. 
Mrs Harington
Gooseberry Fool
One quart of gooseberrys scalded & pulp'd thro' a coarse Sieve, mix it well with half a pint of the liquor they were boyld in, beat five Eggs and mix with it, sweeten it to your taste, keep stirring it 'on ye fire 'till it boils, then take it off and stir in a quarter of a pound of butter Stir it 'till almost cold & then put it in your Dish
Rolls
Three pound & half of flour, three Spoonfuls of Yeast, a bit of butter, big as an Egg, near a Wine quart of milk, melt the butter in the Milk, make it into rolls & set them before ye fire to rise. 
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54 To Pickle Mushrooms After your Mushrooms are well clean'd with a woollen Cloth in Water, boil them in Milk and Water, Eight or ten minutes, put them into the above, whilst it boyls, drain them thro' a Sieve, & put them directly into salt & water that has been boyld, yet cold, yn take them out & put them into boyld Vinegar that is cold, let them stand twenty Seven hours, get ready a pickle made of half white wine, & white wine Vinegar, whole pepper sliced Ginger & Mace, boil it some time and let it stand till cold, then strain it and put it to your Mushrooms in Glasses and pour oyl 'on the top. Mrs Harington Gooseberry Fool One quart of gooseberrys scalded & pulp'd thro' a coarse Sieve, mix it well with half a pint of the liquor they were boyld in, beat five Eggs and mix with it, sweeten it to your taste, keep stirring it 'on ye fire 'till it boils, then take it off and stir in a quarter of a pound of butter Stir it 'till almost cold & then put it in your Dish Rolls Three pound & half of flour, three Spoonfuls of Yeast, a bit of butter, big as an Egg, near a Wine quart of milk, melt the butter in the Milk, make it into rolls & set them before ye fire to rise. Ditto