Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper: Containing Five Hundred Receipes for Economical and Healthful Cooking; also, Many Directions for Securing Health and HappinessBeecher, Catharine Esther
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Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper: Containing Five Hundred Receipes for Economical and Healthful Cooking; also, Many Directions for Securing Health and Happiness
Beecher, Catharine Esther
Cooking; Home economics
Wipe the nuts, prick with a pin, and put them in a pot, sprinkling
the spice as you lay them in; then add two table-spoonfuls of salt;
boil sufficient vinegar to fill the pot, and pour it over the nuts and
spice. Cover the jar close, and keep it for a year, when the pickles
will be ready for use.
Butternuts may be made in the same manner, if they are taken when
green, and soft enough to be stuck through with the head of a pin. Put
them for a week or two in weak brine, changing it occasionally. Before
putting in the brine, rub them about with a broom in brine, to cleanse
the skins. Then proceed as for the walnuts.
The vinegar makes an excellent catsup.
=Mangoes.=—Take the latest growth of young musk-melons, cut out a
small piece from one side and empty them. Scrape the outside smooth,
and soak them four days in strong salt and water. If you wish to green
them, put vine leaves over and under, with bits of alum, and steam
them awhile. Then powder cloves, pepper, and nutmeg in equal portions,
and sprinkle on the inside, and fill them with strips of horse-radish,
small bits of calamus, bits of cinnamon and mace, a clove or two, a
very small onion, nasturtions, and then American mustard-seed to fill
the crevices. Put back the piece cut out, and sew it on, and then sew
the mango in cotton cloth. Lay all in a stone jar, the cut side upward.
Boil sharp vinegar a few minutes with half a tea-cup of salt, and a
table-spoonful of alum to three gallons of vinegar, and turn it on
to the melons. Keep dried barberries for garnishes, and when you use
them, turn a little of the above vinegar of the mangoes heated boiling
hot on to them, and let them swell a few hours. Sliced and salted
cabbage with this vinegar poured on hot is very good.
=Fine pickled Cabbage.=—Shred red and white cabbage, spread it in
layers in a stone jar, with salt over each layer. Put two spoonfuls
of whole black pepper, and the same quantity of allspice, cloves, and
cinnamon, in a bag, and scald them in two quarts of vinegar, and pour
the vinegar over the cabbage, and cover it tight. Use it in two days
after.
=An excellent Way of preparing Tomatoes to eat with Meat.=—Peel and
slice ripe tomatoes, sprinkling on a little salt as you proceed. Drain
off the juice, and pour on hot spiced vinegar.
=To pickle Martinoes.=—Gather them when you can run a pin-head into
them, and after wiping them, keep them ten days in weak brine,
changing it every other day. Then wipe them, and pour over boiling
spiced vinegar. In four weeks they will be ready for use. It is a fine
pickle.
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