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English Sauce

Mrs. Snider.

One pound brown sugar, half-pound salt, half-pound garlic, half-pound onions, quarter-pound pepper, quarterpound ground ginger, half-pound mustard seed, one pound raisins, two pounds apples, half-ounce cayenne, two quarts vinegar. The raisins to be chopped, apples to be peeled and cut and boiled in one pint of the vinegar; garlic and onions must be chopped fine and well bruised; the sugar made into a syrup with one pint of the vinegar. When the apples are cool, mix the whole, including the remainder of the vinegar; blend well together and jar.

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