To preserve Sprigs green

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
Status
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Not a recipe
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Ingredients (6)
For preserving sprigs
For syrup
For preserving peas (alternative)
Instructions (12)
  1. Gather the sprigs of mustard when it is going to seed.
  2. Put them in a pan of spring water, with a great many vine leaves under and over them.
  3. Put to them one ounce of roach allum.
  4. Set it over a gentle fire.
  5. When it is hot take it off, and let it stand till it is quite cold.
  6. Then cover it very close, and hang it a great height over a slow fire.
  7. When they are green, take out the sprigs, and lay them on a sieve to drain.
  8. Make a good syrup.
  9. Boil your sprigs in it once a day for three days.
  10. Put them in, and keep them for use.
  11. They are very pretty to stick in the middle of a preserved orange, or garnish a set of salvers.
  12. You may preserve young peas when they are just come into pod the same way.
Original Text
To preserve Sprigs green. GATHER the sprigs of mustard when it is going to seed, put them in a pan of spring water, with a great many vine leaves under and over them, put to them one ounce of roach allum, set it over a gentle fire, when it is hot take it off, and let it stand till it is quite cold, then cover it very close, and hang it a great height over a slow fire; when they are green, take out the sprigs, and lay them on a sieve to drain, then make a good syrup, boil your sprigs in it once a day for three days, put them in, and keep them for use.—They are very pretty to stick in the middle of a preserved orange, or garnish a set of salvers.—You may preserve young peas when they are just come into pod the same way.
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