The Pocumtuc housewife

A barrel of cider apple sauce and a half barrel of quince and apple will be needed in an ordinary family. Boil down a barrel of sweet cider as soon as it comes from the press, either in the set kettle or in brass kettles, to ten or twelve gallons. Take a rainy day when the boys are idle to pare the apples. Fill a brass kettle two thirds full with half sweet and half sour quartered apples. Put in two or three quarts of cider syrup and boil until apples are tender. Set the barrel of sauce where it will freeze and it will grow better until spring. It needs time to mature. Sweet apples alone put in a few at a time and skimmed out before they mush are very nice. The quinces must be sliced very thin and cooked a little before the apple is mixed in. Save some of the syrup and in the spring make sauce with dried sweet apples first soaked in water. Syrup for all sorts of Sweet Pickles. To eight pounds fruit use one quart vinegar, four pounds sugar, one ounce cinnamon stick, one half ounce cloves. Boil together. Put in fruit and skim out when tender. Boil down syrup and pour over fruit. Preserved Orange PecL Sprinkle the peel well with salt and cover with cold water for three or four days. Pour off the brine and put into fresh water to boil until soft; then put into a thick syrup of sugar and water and boil until it is clear. Put it away in jars with the syrup and use it in cakes and puddings as you would citron. Mangoes. Take green muskmelons, remove the seeds and put them in salt and water over night. Fill them with onions, horseradish chopped fine, mustard seed and cloves, sew them up and pour over hot vinegar. Pickled Cabbage* Pack red cabbages, the large heads cut in quarters, into a brass kettle. Pour weak vinegar and salt over them. Scald until the cabbage is tender. Drain and stick cloves into every piece so as to pin down the leaves. Pack the cabbages in a keg or jar and pour boiling strong vinegar over them. Tomato Soy. One peck green tomatoes, six peppers, four onions chopped; add one cup salt and let stand over night. Then drain off the liquid and add a large cup of sugar, a cup of grated horseradish, a tablespoonful each of allspice, cloves and cassia; cover with good vinegar and cook till soft, also add a little ground mustard. Ripe Tomato Pickle* Eight pounds of tomatoes four pounds of sugar a pint of vinegar, a teaspoonful of mace and one of cinnamon, half a teaspoon of cloves; boil till thick. ^be lpb?6ical ©(rector. This department may with the greatest truth be affirmed to be worth double the Price of the Book, as the receipts are not only safe and cheap, but such as can be easily procured, and are what cannot possibly do the least harm to the constitution, if they should not have the desired effect, which I believe will very seldom or never happen. To Break Up a Fresh Cold. Nothing is better than a glass of hot flip on going to bed. Put the poker in the fire to heat. Mix some ginger and molasses in a beer mug. Pour on some sour cider. Plunge in the red hot poker and stir it up till it foams well. This is a very agreeable cure. Warm the bed hot with the warming pan and put in some hot bricks. A fine sweat will carry off the cold.