Take 2 parts vinegar and one water and put salt enough to make it bear an egg then boyle it, and when cold put in your beans, being first strung they will keep best in glass being close cover’d for use take as many to spend in 2 or 3 weeks & put them in a pipkin with half water and half vinegar and a little salt Stop them close and set them over a gentle fire till they be green and tender so keep them in that till used.
148. To Pickle Turneps.
Pare them and cut them in thin slices and lay them in a gallypot strewing betwixt each row grosse pepper and a little beaten mace when they are all in pour as much vinegar as will cover them in 3 or 4 weeks you may use it.
149. To Pickle Oysters.
To one hundred of oysters take a quart of white wine and all the oyster liquor strain it and boyle it and scumme it very well then put in a spoonfull of whole pepper & 4 or 5 Heads of large mace boyle them an hour and when cold put it up.
150. To Pickle Broom Buds.
Pick your buds whilst they are green before they are yellow at the tops and make a brine strong enough to bare an egg boyle it and when it is cold put in your buds for a month or 6 weeks then green them puting in the bottom of the Skillet nut leaves then pour in Spring water and put in the buds and lay more leaves upon them set them on a gentle fire and when tis almost scaulding hot pour that away and put in more cold water so do 9 or 10 times till they are very green pot them up in vinegar and keep them for your use.
151. To make Rasberry or Currant Wine.
To a quart of water take a pound of Sugar and 3 pound of rasberrys bruise them in a stone morter and put them into your water and Sugar and let it stand 24 hours stiring 3 or 4 times then strain it through a hair Sive or canvas bag then tun it and stop it close in 3 or 4 weeks it will be fit to bottle it will keep a year you may make Goosberry wine this way.