1st 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 and common sense. Spice with patience.
Wrap well in a mantle(robe) of charity. Preserve over a good fire of steady devotion.
Serve with peaches and cream.
The poorest varieties amy be improved by this process and kept for many years in any climate.
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I'm sure the lady who wrote this(no longer living) would be pleased to know that there's more people than those who bought or read through the church cook book who are enjoying this.