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Pickled Mushrooms

Clean the mushrooms with water and flannel, throw them into boiling salt and water in a stewpan, and boil for a few minutes. Drain them in a cullender, and spread out on a linen cloth, covering them with another. Put into bottles views to a certain extent correct, and that the atoms in a state of continual motion or change , referred to by Liebig, are developed by the organs of vital yeast, when in contact with sugar under circumstances favorable to ferto fermentation.

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