Colonial recipes, from old Virginia and Maryland manors

Put the filled fruit into a preserving kettle (after the cantaloupes have been tied well together so the filling can not come out), and boil them until tender in a syrup made out of sugar and vinegar, 1 pound sugar and 1 pint vinegar to 1 Weldon IOI pound fruit. If any of the seasoning is left put it in the syrup and boil with the pickles. VEAL TERRAPIN (Weldon) Boil thoroughly i\ pounds veal. When cold cut in small pieces. Put in a chafing dish a good-sized piece of butter. Rub the meat with a tablespoonful of butter, add, salt and pepper. 3 or 4 cloves. Let boil about 15 minutes. Add wineglass of sherry wine and hard boiled eggs cut up. " The Colonel stopped, unlocked a closet in the sideboard, and produced a black bottle labeled in ink, ' Old Cherry Bounce, 1848.' " — " Colonel Carter of Cartersville." CHERRY BOUNCE {Weldon) Wash the cherries, put them in a porcelain kettle with enough water to cover them. Let them come to a boil, then strain cherries through a colander, then strain juice through 102 Weldon a flannel cloth (white). Let it cool. Add half a gallon or more of French brandy to i gallon of cherry juice and 2 pounds of loaf sugar to 1 gallon of the mixture. Take a little of the bounce and boil the spices in it, using cinnamon, allspice, and a very few cloves, and add this to the whole. The spices are put in a little bag and boiled in this way. Add the sugar while the juice is hot, but the brandy is not added until it is cool. Then bottle and seal tight. BROWN BETTY {Weldon) One-half cup of milk (scant), 2 large cups of brown sugar. Boil 5 minutes, stirring briskly. When almost done stir in 1 cup of black walnut kernels or chopped almonds. Remove from the fire and stir until the mixture grains or looks sugary. Pour in a well-buttered pan to the depth of 1 inch. As the candy cools mark off in squares with a knife. Walnuts are better in it than almonds. fc5 m £=J [illustration: See how it spar - kles, This drink di - vine.] " GlROFLE-GlROFLA TOASTS l drink it as the Fates ordain it. Come, fill it, and have done with rhymes ; Fill up the lonely glass and drain it In memory of dear old times." — William Makepeace Thackeray. " Fill yo' glasses, gentlemen, and drink to the health of that greatest of all blessings — a true Southern lady ! " — Colonel Carter, of Cartersville. TO CELIA Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine ; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine, The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine ; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine." — Ben Jonson. 104 Toasts " Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen ; Here's to the widow of fifty; Here's to the flaunting extravagant queen, And here's to the housewife that's thrifty. Let the toast pass, Drink to the lass, I'll warrant she'll prove An excuse for the glass." — Richard Brinsley Sheridan. TO WOMAN'S LOVE " To woman's love — to man's not akin, For her heart is a home, while his heart is an inn. I have met many, liked a few ; Loved but one — here's to you." Here's to those who love us, Not to those whom we love ; For those whom we love May not love us." Here's to a good girl — Not too good, for the good die young, And we don't like dead ones ! "