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Margaret Dyson Holland cookbook, 1834

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To pickle Eggs for Winter (167) To Six quarts of river water add half a pound of Salt and two ounces of Salt petre boil them together and when really cold or about new milk warm, Stir in four tablespoonsfulls of Staked lime let this stand for two days. Have your eggs nicely laid in cream pots large or Small. Stir the water up from the bottom and pour it slowly over the eggs, paste paper roll the pots and let them in a moderately dry place. Mrs Jepson Chicken. (168) Half roast a chicken and them Skin it then take a pint of water and boil it in it with a crust of bread and a little mace nutmeg, cloves and Salt, to your taste, then put the neck of the fowl into a [illegible]Mortar and beat it well adding to it by degrees the above liquor, till it be fine enough to press thro' a hair sieve Take two or thre spoonfulls warmed two or three time a day as the stomach will bear it. Mrs Dudding
 
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