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One pound of salt, one pound of mustard seed, one pound of stoned raisins, one pound of brown 6ugar, twelve ounces of garlic, six ounces of cayenne pepper, two quarts of unripe gooseberries, two quarts of best vinegar. The mustard seed, gently dried and bruised; the sugar made into a syrup with a pint of the vinegar; the gooseberries dried and boiled in a quart of the vinegar; the garlic to be well bruised, in a mortar. When cold gradually mix the whole in a large mortar, and with the remaining vinegar thoroughly amalgamate them. To be tied down close, the longer kept the better. This is excellent.
 
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