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CUCUMBERS A LA MODE.
Get them fresh and green, cut them in long slices, sprinkle them with salt and
pepper, and fry them in sweet lard.
STEAMBOAT SAUCE.
Mince up a hard-boiled egg very fine, also a few slices of beets, add to these
some salt and pepper, stir them well, and garnish with them.
FIGS.
Take six pounds of sugar to one peck (or sixteen pounds) of the fruit. Scald,
and remove the skin of the fruit in the usual way. Cook them over the fire,
their own juice being sufficient, without the addition of water, until the sugar
penetrates and they are clarified.
They are then taken out, spread on dishes, flattened, and dried in the sun. A
small quantity of syrup should be sprinkled over them while drying; after which,
pack them down in boxes, treating each layer with powdered sugar. The syrup is
afterward concrecated and bottled for use. Brown sugar may be used, a large
portion of which is retained in the syrup.
TOMATO KETCHUP.
Take a gallon of skinned tomatoes, four tablespoonsful of salt, four of black
pepper, and three of mustard. Grind these articles fine, and simmer
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