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Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
MORELLA CHERRIES, to Preserve. — Take full ripe cherries; take off the stalks and prick them with a pin ; to every 2 lbs. of cherries, put 1 K lb. of loaf sugar; beat part of the sugar, and strew it over them ; let them stand all night ; dissolve the rest of the sugar in half a pint of the juice of currantsMorella Cherries, to Preserve; set it over a slow fire, and put in the sugared cherries, and give them a gentle scald; let stand all night again ; and then give them another scald ; then take them care- fully out, and boil the syrup till it is thick ; pour it upon the cherries ; if it be too thin, boil again. MORELLA WINE. — Free from the stalks 60 lbs. of Morelia cher- ries, and bruise them, so that the stones shall be broken. Press out the juice, and mix with 6 gallons of sherry wine, 5 lbs. of fine sugar, and 4 gallons of warm water. Powder 1 oz. each of nutmeg, cinnamon, and mace, hang them separately in small bags in the casks containing the mixture. Bung, and in a few weeks it will be a delici- ously flavoured wine. Add z quart of French brandyMorella Wine. MOTHS, to Preserve Clothes from. — Put a few cuttings of Russia leather in your trunk or wardrobe ; or sprinkle a few pepper-corns, pimento- corns, or cloves in the same places. Or, a piece of camphor in a linen bag. Or, sheets smeared with tur- pentine, and well dried. Cedar wood and tobacco leaves are very noxious to moths. It is effectual to wrap clothes in cotton or old linen saturated with a solution of camphor, and dried. Or, mix together Z2 drops of the oil of cloves, and 12 of the oil of caraway, 6 drops of the oil of lavender, a glass of whiskey, and a piece of camphor. Sprinkle with it. -Ot a mixture of powdered borax, dissolved in warm water. MOUNTAIN WINE. — Free Malaga raisins from stalks ; chop them small, and put 5 lbs. to every gallon of cold spring water; infuse a fortnight, or more, stirring it occasionally ; press out the liquor, and torrel it ; previously fume the vessel with brimstone. Do not bung till the hissing is over. Put half a pint of French brandy to every gallon of wine. MOUSE TRAP, a Never Failing one. — Take a piece of deal, or any kind of wood, about 6 inches broad, and 9 or zo inches long, and put into the sides, about the middle, 2 pins, or thick pieces of round wire ; then take two sticks about two feet long, and lay them on the table, or dresser, &c., with a notch cut at the end of each stick, so that about one half of the board may lie on the table, or place to which the mice resort ; let the end projecting from the table be baited with cheese, &c., and when the mice run off the table to the bait, it will tip them into a vessel three fourths full of water, which must be placed directly MOU 266 MUS under the projection, and they will be drowned. MOUTH WASH.— Take J oz. each of dried mint, thyme, and lemon thyme ; cloves, bruised ; half a nutmeg grated ; pour on these ingredients K oz. of tincture of myrrh, and % oz. of spirits of wine, a cupful of water, and ta drops of oil of peppermintMouth Wash. Keep in a bottle ; shake up before using. Use as a gargle ; it will purify the mouth from bad odours and tastes.