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Sweet Pickle-Pear

7 lbs. peeled pears. 3 lbs. sugar. 1 pint apple vinegar. 1/2 oz. cloves. 1/2 oz. stick cinnamon. 1 oz. allspice.

Cook pears until done, then pack in jars and cook sirup thick and cover the pears well. Seal tight.

Hotch Potch Pickle. 1 large head firm cabbage. 2 dozen cucumbers. 2 dozen green tomatoes. 1/2 dozen white onions. 4 green peppers.

Chop all ingredients fine, cover with one-half pint salt, stand all night, put in a bag to drain. Cover with weak vinegar, let stand twenty-four hours. Next morning drain off vinegar and to every gallon pickle put one-half pound sugar, one dozen cloves, one ounce white mustard seed, one ounce celery seed. Put all in preserving kettle with strong vinegar and let boil one-half hour.