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Mock Turtle Soup Mrs T [Hutton?]
Take a calfs head with the skin on, and two feet, clean them well, and lay them in water all night. Boil the head & feet one hour, when cold cut them in pieces, take one dozen of onions the size of small walnuts, half a pound of butter with some flour, fry them in it until they are of a good brown, then add the head and feel seasoned with some cloves, mace & black pepper beat fine. Fry it 'till it is very thick, then one quart of good veal & Ham gravy with a gill of madeira & the juice of a large lemon & when you heat it to send up to Table, add some force-meat balls & hard boiled yolks of eggs with as much more of the Veal & ham gravy as will fill the tureen. Mrs. Clarkes Receipt - Nov. 1823
To Dye Black
To 1/2 lb dogwood put two quarts of water The dogwood to be put into the water over night, in the morning when it Boil put in what you mean to dye & let boil a quarter of an hour, then take it out and put into the dye a pennyworth of copperas and a pennyworth of [verdegrean?] both finely pounded when melted put in your things & let it boil as before stirring all the time with a stick let it remain in the [illegible] hours then rense it in hard water but not wring them & dry in the shed.
Miss Mary Metcalfe

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Mock Turtle Soup Mrs T [Hutton?] Take a calfs head with the skin on, and two feet, clean them well, and lay them in water all night. Boil the head & feet one hour, when cold cut them in pieces, take one dozen of onions the size of small walnuts, half a pound of butter with some flour, fry them in it until they are of a good brown, then add the head and feel seasoned with some cloves, mace & black pepper beat fine. Fry it 'till it is very thick, then one quart of good veal & Ham gravy with a gill of madeira & the juice of a large lemon & when you heat it to send up to Table, add some force-meat balls & hard boiled yolks of eggs with as much more of the Veal & ham gravy as will fill the tureen. Mrs. Clarkes Receipt - Nov. 1823 To Dye Black To 1/2 lb dogwood put two quarts of water The dogwood to be put into the water over night, in the morning when it Boil put in what you mean to dye & let boil a quarter of an hour, then take it out and put into the dye a pennyworth of copperas and a pennyworth of [verdegrean?] both finely pounded when melted put in your things & let it boil as before stirring all the time with a stick let it remain in the [illegible] hours then rense it in hard water but not wring them & dry in the shed. Miss Mary Metcalfe