TO PICKLE BUTTER NUTS.
Gather the nuts in the beginning of July; put them in strong salt and water for a week; take them out, wash and drain them; lay them in a stone jar; boil some good vinegar with pepper grains, mustard seed, mace, and cloves; pour this boiling hot over the nuts, and let them stand a week; then take them and put on fresh vinegar with the spices which were in the first vinegar; in a month look at them; if the vinegar has lost its strength, boil fresh and pour over: this will be fit to use in six months.