The frugal housewife; or, experienced cook : wherein the art of dressing all sorts of viands with cleanliness, decency, and elegance is explained in five hundred approved receipts ... / originally written by Susanna Carter, but now improved by an experienced cook in one of the principal taverns in the city of London.

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To make Catchup. To make fine Milk Punch. Take two quarts of water, one quart of milk, half a pint of lemon juice, and one quart of brandy, with sugar to your taste : put the milk and water together a little warm, then the sugar and le- mon juice ; stir it well together ; then the brandy, stir it again, and run it through a flannel bag till it is very fine, then bottle it. It will keep a fortnight or more. To recover Wine that has turned sharp. Rack off your wine into another vessel, and to ten gallons put the fol- lowing powder : take oyster shells, scrape and wash off the brown dirty outside of the shell, and dry them in an oven till they will powder; put a pound of this powder to every nine or ten gallons of your wine ; stir it will to- gether, and stop it up, then let it stand to settle two or three days, or till it is fine. As soon as it is fine, bottle it off’, and cork it well To fine Wine the Lisbon way. To every twenty gallons of wine take the whites of ten eggs, and a small handful of salt, beat them together to a froth, and mix them well with a quart or more of the wine: then pour the wine and the whites into a vessel; stir it well, and in a few days it will be fine. To clear Wine. Take half a pound of hartshorn, and dissolve it in cyder, if it be for cyder, or Rhenish wine for any other liquor. This is quite sufficient for a hogs- head. TO MAKE CATCHUP. Take the large flaps of mushrooms, pick nothing but the straws and dirt from them, lay them in a broad earthen pan, strew a good deal of salt over them, let them lie till next morning, then with you hand break them,