Transcriber's Notes:

Obvious punctuation errors were corrected.

The text uses variant hyphenation and spelling. Where a majority could not be ascertained, as in egg-yolks, the variations were retained.

cheesecakecheese cake
corn-breadcorn bread
allspicealspice
soapmaking soap-making

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