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To make good vinegar
To every gallon of water (wine measure) that the cask will contain put into it one pound of course sugar. Then put in the water by quarts. First a quart of boiling water then a quart of cold and so continue to do untill you have your full quantity that is untill the cask is full. In a few hours it will be cool enough to add a little fresh barm.  Spread on a little piece toasted bread while it is warm. Then cover over the bung hole with a piece of paper pricked full of holes and let it stand in a place that is a little warm.
To prevent cheese from Heaving
Dissolve one ounce of Blue vitriol (or I should think white would be as well or better) in a quart of boiling water. Keep it in a bottle and put 3 table spoonfulls of this water into as much milk as will make a cheese that is one third of a hundred weight.
To make oil for furniture
Take Linseed oil put it into a glazed pipkin. Put into it as much Alkanet-root as the oil will cover. Let it boil gently and it will become of strong red coulor. When cool it is fit for use.
To make good cheese
Put half a pound of salt petre into 18 quarts of the runing
To make shoes and boots water proof
Take drying oil (that is linseed oil boiled 4 ounces yellow wax half an ounce Spirits of Turpentine the same quantity Burgandy pitch a quarter of an ounce. Melt it together and lay it on with a sponge at some distance from the fire.

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To make good vinegar To every gallon of water (wine measure) that the cask will contain put into it one pound of course sugar. Then put in the water by quarts. First a quart of boiling water then a quart of cold and so continue to do untill you have your full quantity that is untill the cask is full. In a few hours it will be cool enough to add a little fresh barm. Spread on a little piece toasted bread while it is warm. Then cover over the bung hole with a piece of paper pricked full of holes and let it stand in a place that is a little warm. To prevent cheese from Heaving Dissolve one ounce of Blue vitriol (or I should think white would be as well or better) in a quart of boiling water. Keep it in a bottle and put 3 table spoonfulls of this water into as much milk as will make a cheese that is one third of a hundred weight. To make oil for furniture Take Linseed oil put it into a glazed pipkin. Put into it as much Alkanet-root as the oil will cover. Let it boil gently and it will become of strong red coulor. When cool it is fit for use. To make good cheese Put half a pound of salt petre into 18 quarts of the runing To make shoes and boots water proof Take drying oil (that is linseed oil boiled 4 ounces yellow wax half an ounce Spirits of Turpentine the same quantity Burgandy pitch a quarter of an ounce. Melt it together and lay it on with a sponge at some distance from the fire.