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46 To cook old Potatoes. 
After the first of April potatoes ought to be peeled at night for the one or two o'clock dinner, and for the late dinners early in the morning, and steeped in cold water till the time for cooking them - i.e. for ten or twelve hours - and then boiled in fresh water.
Strawberry or Raspberry Acid.
Put 12 lbs of fruit (ripe & dry) into a pan & pour over 2 quarts of spring water previously acidutated with 5 oz of Tartaric acid - Let this remain twenty four hours, then strain off taking care not to break the fruit - To each pint of clear liquor add 1 1/2 lb of finely powdered sugar, stir it frequently & when the sugar is quite dissolved & the fermentation has ceased (which will be in three or four days according to the warmth of the place &c) bottle the syrup - The whole process must be cold - Tie the corks well down & dip the Mouths of the bottles in rosin - When the acid is wanted for jelly put 1 oz of Isinglass for a quart mould.

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46 To cook old Potatoes. After the first of April potatoes ought to be peeled at night for the one or two o'clock dinner, and for the late dinners early in the morning, and steeped in cold water till the time for cooking them - i.e. for ten or twelve hours - and then boiled in fresh water. Strawberry or Raspberry Acid. Put 12 lbs of fruit (ripe & dry) into a pan & pour over 2 quarts of spring water previously acidutated with 5 oz of Tartaric acid - Let this remain twenty four hours, then strain off taking care not to break the fruit - To each pint of clear liquor add 1 1/2 lb of finely powdered sugar, stir it frequently & when the sugar is quite dissolved & the fermentation has ceased (which will be in three or four days according to the warmth of the place &c) bottle the syrup - The whole process must be cold - Tie the corks well down & dip the Mouths of the bottles in rosin - When the acid is wanted for jelly put 1 oz of Isinglass for a quart mould.