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Tomato Catsup (Cut bushel tomatoes to pieces)

Cut 1/2 bushel tomatoes to pieces, and boil them in their own liquor until soft; strain and press through a hair-sieve to separate the skins and seeds; boil down to a thick pulp, stirring all the time; then add 6 ounces salt, 6 drachms allspice, 1 ounce 5½ drachms yellow mustard, 3 1780. pot of boiling water to be scalded through.

Fine Raspberry Vinegar.

Bruised ripe raspberries and white wine vinegar, of each 3 pints; macerate 24 hours, press, strain, and to each pint add white sugar, 1 pound; boil, skim, cool, and to each pint add brandy, 2 ounces. In a similar way may be made Strawberry Vinegar and Cherry Vinegar. ounces black pepper, 6 drachms cloves, 3 1781. Raspberry Vinegar. Macerate drachms mace, 2 drachms cayenne pep- 2 pounds fresh raspberries with 1 pint best per, and 1 gallon vinegar. The spices must vinegar for 14 days, and strain; or, to 1 quart all be ground fine before using them. Let of juice add 2 ounces strong acetic acid or the whole boil up twice, and, when cool, enough to render it sufficiently acid. bottle. 1782. Raspberry Vinegar from Rasp-