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Mary Carnegie and Susan Gillespie cookbook, 1804-1905

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Reciept to dry Morilli Cherries - Mrs. Carnegie (page # written above name but illegible)
One pound of cherries (stones and stalks)
a quarter pound of Sugar to each pound
Stone your cherries and let them lie a night
amongst the Sugar - Give them one quick
Boil then let them lie 2 days in the syrup
put them on a [Siarch?] and let all the syrup
drop from them - put them upon a clean
Sieve with paper below them before the fire
10 days changing the paper every two days -
[Menbrish?] Cherries may be done in
the same way without Sugar - 

To clean Marble
Lime and Hot water takes out
Stains from Marble -
Cold Irish? Prikle used at Craigs[illegible]
To 12 Scotch pints of water take 4
pounds of common Salt a quarter
pound of Sal-prunella and a pound
of raw Sugar. Rub your meat with 
Salt and let it lie in it 2 days to
take off the Blood. Then put it into
the [Prikle?] and when any Scum rises
take it carefully off - this [illegible]

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Reciept to dry Morilli Cherries - Mrs. Carnegie (page # written above name but illegible) One pound of cherries (stones and stalks) a quarter pound of Sugar to each pound Stone your cherries and let them lie a night amongst the Sugar - Give them one quick Boil then let them lie 2 days in the syrup put them on a [Siarch?] and let all the syrup drop from them - put them upon a clean Sieve with paper below them before the fire 10 days changing the paper every two days - [Menbrish?] Cherries may be done in the same way without Sugar - To clean Marble Lime and Hot water takes out Stains from Marble - Cold Irish? Prikle used at Craigs[illegible] To 12 Scotch pints of water take 4 pounds of common Salt a quarter pound of Sal-prunella and a pound of raw Sugar. Rub your meat with Salt and let it lie in it 2 days to take off the Blood. Then put it into the [Prikle?] and when any Scum rises take it carefully off - this [illegible]