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patients. Perhaps this medicine might merit 

 a trial in the yellow fever.* 



The general mode of preparing Cayenne 

 pepper is by gathering the bird peppers 

 when ripe, drying them in the sun, powder- 

 ing and mixing them with salt, which, when 

 well dried, is put into close corked bottles, 

 for the purpose of excluding the air, which 

 disposes the salt to liquefy, and therefore is 

 thought by some an improper ingredient in 

 the composition. This is sometimes called 

 Cayenne butter, and is in general esteem for 

 the excellent relish it gives to different 

 dishes. 



The mixture called Man-dram is made 

 from these peppers, in the following manner, 

 and seldom fails to provoke the most languid 

 appetite : the ingredients are, sliced cucum- 

 bers, eschalots or onions cut very small, a 

 little lime-juice and Madeira wine, with a few 

 pods of bird or bonnet pepper well mashed 

 and mixed with the liquor. 



For the purpose of pickling, the bell and 

 goat kinds are considered the best : they are 

 to be gathered before they arrive at their full 

 size, while their skin is tender : they are to 



* Lunan. 



