The family dictionary, or, Houshold [sic] companion wherein are alphabetically laid down exact rules and choice physical receipts for the preservation of health ... directions for making oils, ointments, salves, ... chymical preparations, physical-wines, ales and other liquors and descriptions of the virtues of herbs, fruits, flowers ... and parts of living creatures used in medicinal potions, ... likewise directions for cookery, ... also the way of making all sorts of perfumes ... together with the art of making all sorts of English wines, ... the mystery of pickling and keeping all sorts of pickles ... : to which is added as an appendix the explanation of physical terms, bills of fare ... : with the art of carving and many other useful matters / by J.H.

Gooseberries, to Preserve: Take of the largest Berries, when they are green and hard; of those, if you can get them, that are called Gascoign Ber∣ries: pick them clean, and covering them very close, let them stand over a gentle fire half an hour, to coddle a little; but suffer them not to boil, lest the Skins break; and when you per∣ceive a fixed greenness on them, put them into a Sieve, that the Water may drain from them: then put them into as much clarified Sugar as will cover them and simper lei∣surely, being close covered, by which means they will look greener than they grew; and having suffered them to stand on the fire in the Sy∣rup, take them off; and being cool, put them up for your use. Now as for Preserving the various sorts of Green Fruits, there are several pro∣per Seasons to be observed: Viz.

Green Gooseberries about Whitsontide; White Wheat-plumbs in the midst of July; Pear-plumbs in the middle of August; the Peach and Pip∣pin about Bartholomew-tide; Grapes in the beginning of September. Note, That when your Green-Fruit is to be Preserved, you have two Skil∣lets

of boiling Water, to shift 'em into one as the other cools, and fettle them in the Water till they fix to a green∣ness; then take and put them into a Sugar Syrup, and let them boil gently about a quar∣ter of an hour, and so put them up for use.