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TOMATO PRESERVES.
Scald and peel carefully small perfectly-formed tomatoes, not too ripe, (yellow
pear-shaped are best), prick with a needle to prevent bursting, add an equal
amount of sugar by weight, let lie over night, then pour off all juice into a
preserving-kettle, and boil until it is a thick syrup, clarifying with white of
an egg; add tomatoes and boil carefully with white of an egg; add tomatoes and
boil carefully until they look transparent. A piece or two of root-ginger, or a
slice of lemon may be added.
WATERMELON PRESERVES.
Pare off outside green rind, cut in pieces two inches long, weigh, throw into
cold water, skim out, add a heaping tea-spoon each of salt and pulverized alum
to two gallons of rinds, let stand until salt and alum dissolve, fill the kettle
with cold water, and place on top of stove where it will slowly come to boiling
point, covering a large plate so as to keep rinds under; boil until they can be
easily pierced with a fork, drain them from the water, and put into a syrup
previously prepared as follows: Bruise and tie in a muslin bag four ounces of
ginger-root, and boil in two or three pints of water until it is strongly
flavored. At the same time boil in a little water until tender, in another pan,
three or four sliced lemons; make a syrup of the sugar and the water in which
the lemons and the ginger-root were boiled, add the rinds and slices of lemon to
this, and boil slowly half to three-quarters of an hour.
Citrons may be prepared in the same way, by paring, coring and slicing, or
cutting into fanciful shapes with tin-cutters made for the purpose.
APPLE BUTTER.
Boil one barrel of new cider down half, peel and core three bushels of good
cooking apples; when the cider has boiled to half the quantity, add the apples,
and when soft, stir constantly for from eight to ten hours. If done it will
adhere to an inverted plate. Put away in stone jars (not earthen ware), covering
first with writing-paper cut to fit the jar, and press down closely upon the
apple butter; cover the whole with thick brown paper snugly tied down.--Miss
Sarah Thompson, Delaware.
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