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it has no efficacy, kraft, or at least is not so strong 

 if it is unground and entire. They then cut a clean 

 linen cloth to the size round and diameter of the jar 

 inside, and then another linen cloth of the same size, 

 hem them round the hedges to a round bag, fill it with 

 the ground dry mustard so that it is only as thick as the 

 blade of a knife ; then, not only sow up the hole through 

 which the mustard was put in, but also sow a quilted 

 network of cross-lines upon the face, just as one stops 

 a quilt or bodice with ' hards ' * and cotton, that it may 

 lie even. This bag, pasen, so filled is laid upon the 

 Samphire, which not only presses it down so that it all 

 lies in the vinegar and none above it, but also prevents 

 it from forming any mildew on the surface. Afterwards 

 they have a large Chamois-leather, samsk-lapp, which 

 reaches well over the jar. This is laid over the jar and 

 tied tight down that the virtue, kraft, of the vinegar 

 may not be lost. [T. II. p. 99.J They let it stand so 

 for 14 days or a month, and then look whether the 

 Samphire still retains its green colour, which if it does 

 then they take some pinks, naglikor, Dianthus Caryo- 

 phyllus, L. Clove Pink, ginger, Ingefara, pepper, and 

 mace, muskotblomma, half an ounce of each, and 

 half an ounce of Jamaica pepper (allspices), boil them 

 together, let them cool, and then lay them in the jar with 

 the Samphire, tie it up again, after replacing the mustard 

 bag as before said, and leave it so to stand till they 

 require it. But if, as commonly happens, they see that 

 the Samphire has not kept its green colour, but has 

 changed to a yellow colour, they take it together with 

 the vinegar it lies in, lay it with the afore-named spices 



* ' Hards of Flax and Hemp, the coarser parts separated from the fine 

 stuff.' Bailey, Eng. Die. 1736. 'Hardens' or 'Harden,' hemp, hemp- 

 fabric, &c. - Lucas-, Stud; 1882, Glossary, p. -257. [JVL.] - ■- -- - 



