Bradshaw's family companion. Containing ... five hundred receipts in cookery ... also curious extracts from a famous treatise on the teeth, their disorder and cure / [by Dr. Hoffham, i.e. Friedrich Hoffmann] Together with the Cellar-Man.

Bradshaw, Penelope

Date:: 1753

Credit: Bradshaw's family companion. Containing ... five hundred receipts in cookery ... also curious extracts from a famous treatise on the teeth, their disorder and cure / [by Dr. Hoffham, i.e. Friedrich Hoffmann] Together with the Cellar-Man. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$then pour out the Pickle from them, and when’ both are cold put them in an earthen Jug, and Cork it up clofe : In two or three Days they will be fit So eat. To make Goofeberry Vinegar h\ Take Goofeberries full ripe, bruife them in a Mortar, then meafure' them, and to every Quart of Goofeberries pur three Quarts of Water, firft boiled, and let it (land till cold y let it (land twenty-four Hours $ then firain it thro5 a Canvafs, then a Flannel 5 and to every Gal- Ion of this Liquor put one Pound of feeding brown Sugar 5 dir it well, and Barrel it up j at three Quarters of a Year old it is fit for ufe, but if it (lands longer it is the better : This Vinegar is like- wife good for Pickles. An excellent Way to make Vine gar y by which a Ferjon lately acquired a good Fortune ] Put a pound of coarfe Sugar to every Gallon of Water 5 let it boil, and keep fcumming ir as long as any fcum will afife j it mull afterwards be put into T ubs to cool like Beer $ when it is cold as Beer to Work, toad a large Piece of Bread, and rub it all over with Yeaft, put this into the Liquor, and let it Work rear thirty Hours 5 then put the Liquor into a flout Iron-bound painted Cask, which mult be fet in the Sun, and in fuch a Place as it can remain in. If made in March it will be fit for ufe about July • ir is bed to draw it cff into Bottles, and keep it for ufe. This is the Pronged of Vinegar, and will do very well for Pickling, with a third Part rfcold Spring Water to ir, and be full four enough 5 2nd will like- wife when ufed alone, keep mod Sorts of Pickles without boiling 5 nor indeed do I ever ufe it hot, unlefs with my green Pickles. Pa die'$