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1920 photo of Huntroyd House. The picture looks South West past the Smoking Room end gable, built around 1782, toward the Green Court and the octagonal roof of the Game Pantry can be seen on the left. The Smoking Room block was demolished in the…

Milk of Rose’s Take one quart of Rose Water- put into theBottle two Ounce’s of Oil of sweet Almonds- shakethem well together for ten minutes- then pour inhalf an ounce of the Oil of Tarter & continue shakingthe ingredients till well incoporated-…

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[of sev] juices of seven lemons stir it well twice a day for 3days- stop it up for [2]3 weeks, then bottle it off-Another country housewifeTo 6 Gallons of water 12: pounds lbs of Sugar.The juices of 6 lemons & the whitesof 4 eggs well beaten-put…

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Cowslip wine Lady Clive8 pecks slips &, cowslips-6 gallons of water- 14 lbs- sugar-boil the sugar & water half an hourskimming it well- then, beat up 4 whites of eggs with their shells, putthem into the water & let it boila few minutes…

1782 68 Qts Currants 1 Raspberries 33lb Sugar 53 Qts Cur32 Qts 8 Galls 2½ Sugar 8 " 20lb [illeg]/ 14 4lb 284/ 3 " 7 17 " 7 Mrs Starkie

about as warm as milk fromthe Cow- put to it 25 pound lb of Malaga raisins pricke’d & rubbe’d veryclean, & then throw in the sage-stir all the ingredients together &let them stand a week in a cool place- then strain your liquor through’a…

another vessel & put to it a little yeast when it must stand 3days to work, when the fermentationis over, let it he drawn into aclean vessel then stand close covere’d3 weeks- then bottle it up, putinto each bottle a little sugar-Strawberry…

poure‘d into another vessel where it must stand 4 days to fermentwith yeast; when the fermentation is overlet it lie shut up close & stand ina cool place at least a month- then drain it into another vessel,where it must stand 6 weeks longer,…