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Watermelon Pickles
Watermelon Pickles
Ingredients:
5 cups sugar
2 cups vinegar
1 cup water
1 lemon, sliced
1 tbsp. whole cloves
1 tbsp. whole allspice
1 tbsp. ginger
Directions:
l cinnamon stick
Discard (eat) pink flesh of watermelon. Remove outer green skin. Cut fleshy rind
into 1–inch pieces. Should make 5 cups rind. Soak overnight in salt water (2 tbsp. salt
to 1 quart water). Drain.
Cover with water and simmer until tender (about 30 minutes). Drain.
© Aliske Webb 1999. Published by Bookmice.com
The Quilt Inn Country Cookbook Aliske Webb
Combine sugar, vinegar, water and lemon. Tie cloves, allspice, ginger and
cinnamon stick in cloth bag. Add to liquid, boil and stir 5 minutes. Add rind, cook and
stir until transparent (about 45 minutes). Ladle into sterilized jars and seal.
© Aliske Webb 1999. Published by Bookmice.com
The Quilt Inn Country Cookbook Aliske Webb
Songs From the Hearth
I have a copy of The Woman’s Exchange Cook Book by Mrs. Minnie Palmer,
published in 1901 by the W.B. Conkey Company of Chicago. It’s been in our family for
a long time. I think it was my great-grandmother’s. Now, before you think it is valuable
or something let me tell you this is a very beat up copy. In fact, the original cover was
lost years ago and as long as I can remember it’s been held together by the very
beaten up cover of another (lost) book called, Heart Songs. As a little girl I misread the
tile and always thought it said “Hearth Songs”. Somehow that seemed appropriate. A
cookbook would contain songs from the hearth. Isn’t that what Shakespeare was
alluding to when he wrote, “If music be the food of love...”?
Unlike Elena Molokhovets’ book about pre-Revolutionary aristocratic excesses,
Mrs. Palmer’s book is a plain, down-to-earth anthology of everything a North American
homemaker at the turn of the century needed to know. It included everything from
dressing game, to preserving food, to baking pies and making ice cream delicacies.
For extra value in the over 500 pages, there are chapters on cooking for an invalid,
how to run a nursery, how to make soap, perfumes and cosmetics, and remedies for
common ailments, my favorite. So, before we become too nostalgic for the good old
days, here are some of the invaluable (and sometimes unbelievable) cures you might
want to try.
To Stop Bleeding
“Apply wet tea leaves, or scrapings of sole leather to a fresh cut and it will stop
bleeding, or apply a paste of flour and vinegar.”
To Stop Bleeding at the Nose
“Bathe the feet in very hot water, drinking at the same time a pint of cayenne
pepper tea, or hold both hands above the head.”
Toothache
Ingredients:
5 cups sugar
2 cups vinegar
1 cup water
1 lemon, sliced
1 tbsp. whole cloves
1 tbsp. whole allspice
1 tbsp. ginger
Directions:
l cinnamon stick
Discard (eat) pink flesh of watermelon. Remove outer green skin. Cut fleshy rind
into 1–inch pieces. Should make 5 cups rind. Soak overnight in salt water (2 tbsp. salt
to 1 quart water). Drain.
Cover with water and simmer until tender (about 30 minutes). Drain.
© Aliske Webb 1999. Published by Bookmice.com
The Quilt Inn Country Cookbook Aliske Webb
Combine sugar, vinegar, water and lemon. Tie cloves, allspice, ginger and
cinnamon stick in cloth bag. Add to liquid, boil and stir 5 minutes. Add rind, cook and
stir until transparent (about 45 minutes). Ladle into sterilized jars and seal.
© Aliske Webb 1999. Published by Bookmice.com
The Quilt Inn Country Cookbook Aliske Webb
Songs From the Hearth
I have a copy of The Woman’s Exchange Cook Book by Mrs. Minnie Palmer,
published in 1901 by the W.B. Conkey Company of Chicago. It’s been in our family for
a long time. I think it was my great-grandmother’s. Now, before you think it is valuable
or something let me tell you this is a very beat up copy. In fact, the original cover was
lost years ago and as long as I can remember it’s been held together by the very
beaten up cover of another (lost) book called, Heart Songs. As a little girl I misread the
tile and always thought it said “Hearth Songs”. Somehow that seemed appropriate. A
cookbook would contain songs from the hearth. Isn’t that what Shakespeare was
alluding to when he wrote, “If music be the food of love...”?
Unlike Elena Molokhovets’ book about pre-Revolutionary aristocratic excesses,
Mrs. Palmer’s book is a plain, down-to-earth anthology of everything a North American
homemaker at the turn of the century needed to know. It included everything from
dressing game, to preserving food, to baking pies and making ice cream delicacies.
For extra value in the over 500 pages, there are chapters on cooking for an invalid,
how to run a nursery, how to make soap, perfumes and cosmetics, and remedies for
common ailments, my favorite. So, before we become too nostalgic for the good old
days, here are some of the invaluable (and sometimes unbelievable) cures you might
want to try.
To Stop Bleeding
“Apply wet tea leaves, or scrapings of sole leather to a fresh cut and it will stop
bleeding, or apply a paste of flour and vinegar.”
To Stop Bleeding at the Nose
“Bathe the feet in very hot water, drinking at the same time a pint of cayenne
pepper tea, or hold both hands above the head.”
Toothache
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