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To preserve the Walnut in syrrup.

TAke and gather your Nuts in the month of July, in the be∣ginning of the month, pare them very thin, and bore them with a bodkin of wood, quite through every way, that is, through the midst and through each end, so done, throw them into fair water, and so let them lye the space of seven or eight daies, shifting the water every day once, this done, take them forth and let them be boiled in fair water till they be tender, then

take them forth of the water, and lay them on a searce to drip and to dry for two hours, then take Cynamon cut it in small peeces and Cloves, and stick them into the holes which before you made, so done, make your syrrup to the height of a thin syrrup, and put your Nuts into the same syrrup, and let them boyl one quarter of an hour, then skim them and take them from the fire, and let them stand till they be almost cold, and then put them up, and let them stand two or three weeks, then boil them again to the full height of a syrrup, and so keep them to use

Lettice roots, first pare them, then boil them untill they be tender, then put them in Sugar as you know, let them lye in their syrrup untill they candy, after dry them.

Mr. Birch.