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Pickled Onions

Small onions

Spring water

Pinch of Nutmeg

Pinch of Mace

Pinch of Whole Cloves

Vinegar

Salt

1. Put the small onions in a pot.

2. Cover them with spring water and a handful of salt.

3. Boil them.

4. Strain off the water

5. Take off three layers from the onions.

6. Dry the onions well. (cont.)

7. Put them in a jar with nutmeg, mace and cloves.

8. Boil enough vinegar with a pinch of salt to fill the jar.

9. When vinegar mixture has cooled, pour it over the onions.

10. Put the lid on the jar.

11. Let sit for at least 24 hours. The longer they sit, the more flavor.

Shrub

Shrub was a beverage popularly prepared with the juice of an acid fruit, like lemon or orange, and a spirit, such as brandy and/or wine. The word "shrub" is a variant of an Arab word, shurb, meaning "sweet drink". It was one of the many culinary ideas brought back into Europe with the returning armies of the 11th and 12th centuries.

2 L  brandy  8 cups

5 whole medium lemons juiced, but peels of only 2 5

.50whole nutmeg, freshly grated ½

1.5 L white wine 6 cups

750 mL white sugar 3 cups

Combine: brandy, lemon juice, lemon peel and nutmeg in a large bottle; cork well

Set aside: for 3 days for flavours to blend

Add: wine, sugar

Mix: thoroughly to dissolve sugar

Strain: twice through a filter, such as a paper coffee filter, several layers of fine cheesecloth or a wine filter

Store: in smaller bottles

Yield: 72 servings of 60 mL (1/4 cup) each

Carne Seca

Use roast beef or brisquet. Cook in crock pot on low till most moisture is gone, aprrox. 12 to 18 hours. Meat should be crispy. Shred meat into shreds. Simmer in following for one hour.

½ tsp comino

½ tsp oregano

1 small onion

2 cloves garlic

1 cup chili colorado

3 green chilis

5 tomatos

1 tsp salt

1 cup water