To keep Walnuts all the Year

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
Source
The Art Of Cookery
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Ingredients (5)
for keeping walnuts
for preparing walnuts
for keeping lemons
Instructions (3)
  1. Take a large jar, a layer of sand at the bottom, then a layer of walnuts, then sand, then the nuts, and so on till the jar is full; and be sure they don't touch each other in any of the layers.
  2. When you would use them, lay them in warm water for an hour, shifting the water as it cools; then rub them dry, and they will peel well and eat sweet.
  3. Lemons will keep thus covered, better than any other way.
Original Text
To keep Walnuts all the Year. TAKE a large jar, a layer of sand at the bottom, then a layer of walnuts, then sand, then the nuts, and so on till the jar is full; and be sure they don't touch each other in any of the layers. When you would use them, lay them in warm water for an hour, shifting the water as it cools; then rub them dry, and they will peel well and eat sweet. Lemons will keep thus covered, better than any other way.
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