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fait penetrate common earthen-ware, and therefore 

 pickles ought to be kept in (lone, or glafs jars. But 

 when arrived at the receipts for pickling and pre- 

 ferring acid fruits, what mud be the gentle reader's 

 aftonifhment to find thofe very veffels exprcfsly 

 recommended which fo lately were abfolutely con- 

 demned! Thus, in the procefs for pickling ger- 

 kins, or young cucumbers, " the beft white-wine 

 vinegary in which they are to be pickled, is ordered 

 to be boiled in a hell-metal pot." In a fubfequent 

 receipt " cucumbers are diredled to be pickled in 

 pewter diflies with fait interpofed. Afterwards the 

 vinegar to be poured from them into a copper 

 faucepan with alitde fait." It is added " they will 

 then be fit to eat in two or three days!" 



Lemon pickles are ordered to be done in aa 

 earthen dilh — golden pippins in 2l pewter difh, with 

 vinegary &c. — " To pickle famphire; put it into a 

 brafs faucepan, throw in a handful ofjalty and cover 

 it with good vinegary and fet it over a flow fire." 



Others, with lefs referve, recommend copper coin 

 to be put into each vefTel in which thefe pickles are 

 kept, becaufe, fay they, " it preferves their colour, 

 and gives them a beautiful green." 



From eating a quantity of fine pickled famphirc 

 thus imbued with copper, an amiable young lady 



was 



