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Walnut Catsup

Take young, berry Syrup. Mix together 2 pints rasptender walnuts, prick them in several places, berry syrup and 1/2 fluid ounce acetic acid . bruise them with a wooden billet, and place Added to iced water according to taste, this in a jar with sufficient water to cover them, is one of the most delightful of refrigerant adding a handful of salt for every 25 walnuts; drinks. Kitchener says this is the most elegant preparation of the onion tribe. Wines of several herbs may be made in the same proportion as stir them twice a day for 14 days; then drain 1783. Eschalot Wine. Bruised shallots, off the liquor into a saucepan. Cover the 3 ounces; sherry wine, 1 pint; infuse for 10 walnuts with boiling vinegar, crush to a pulp days; 1 ounce scraped horseradish and 1 and strain through a cullender into the liquor drachm thin lemon-peel may be added. Dr. in the saucepan. Add, for every 2 quarts, 2 ounces each black pepper and ginger, 1 ounce each cloves and nutmeg pounded fine, a pinch of cayenne, a shallot minced fine, and a the vinegars. thimbleful of celery seed tied in a muslin bag. Boil all together for an hour, and, when cold, bottle. In the above manner an excellent catsup may be made from butternuts.

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