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Ingredients
- 1/2 doz. children in large grassy field
- 2 or 3 small dogs
- a pinch of brook and some small pebbles
Method
- First, use care and get one, not too young, but tender and a healthy growth.
- Make your selection carefully and let it be final. Otherwise they will not keep.
- Like wine they improve with age.
- Do not pickle or put in hot water.
- This makes them sour.
- Prepare as follows:
- sweeten with smiles according to variety.
- The sour, bitter kind are improved by a pinch of salt of common sense.
- Spice with patience.
- Wrap well in a mantle of charity.
- Preserve over a good fire of steady devotion.
- Serve with peaches and cream.
- The poorest varieties may be improved by this process and kept for years in any climate.
