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To preserve Grapes in clusters, with one Leaf, when you gather them.

Take the great Gascoyne grapes when they are green, before they are too ripe, and prick every one of them; to every pound of grapes add a pound and a quarter of sugar; make a syrup with the verjuice of the grapes stained; when your sugar is made clear and perfect, put in your grapes strained into juice; put them in a deep bason, cover them close, and set them on a pot of scalding water to boil; when your grapes are tender, take them up, boil the syrup a little more, and betwixt hot and cold, put them in broad glasses or gally-pots (which is better than glasses, as you must lay one cluster above another); then put a paper over them and tie them up.


Another Way.

Take some close bunches of red or white grapes, before they are too ripe, and put them into a pan, with a quarter of a pound of sugar-candy, and fill the jar with brandy; tie it close, and set them in a dry place.


To preserve Mulberries whole.

Set some mulberries over the fire in a skillet, or preserving pan; draw from them a pint of juice when it is strained; then take three pounds of sugar, beaten very fine, wet the sugar with the pint of juice; boil up the sugar and skim it, put in two pounds of ripe mulberries, and let them stand in the syrup till they are thoroughly warm; then set them on the fire, and let them boil very gently; do them but half enough, and

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