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Table Mustard

Mix 8 spoonfuls of flour of mustard with 2 of salt and 9 of water. Mix to a smooth paste, add 6 spoonfuls more water, and mix. 1785. Le Normand's Superior Table Mustard. Take of best flour of mustard, 2 together, add of salt, 1 ounce; grape juice or sugar sufficient to sweeten, with sufficient water to form the mass into a thinnish paste by trituration in a mortar. When put into pots, a red-hot poker is to be thrust into each, the surface. 1773. Horseradish Vinegar, with 3 and a little vinegar afterwards poured upon

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