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Wednesday 01 February 2006

Gilbert White makes blackcurrant jelly: Thursday's food quotation

10 July: Preserved cherries, & currans; & made curran-jelly. Not one mess of wood-strawberries brought this year ...
22 July: Made black-curran jelly, & rasp: jam.

1785 Gilbert White [Gilbert White's year, OUP, 1982]

Contributed by Anne Flavell. Posted at 21:50
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