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Solution to wash walls:
1 gallon water
1 cup amonia
1/2 cup vinegar
1/2 cup soda

(Now doesn't this sound like fun? Myself I will use Awesome--best cleaner I have ever come across and it sells in the Dollar Stores for $1 a bottle. Dilutes for most jobs)

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Gum Drop Cookies
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
2/3 cup shortening ---1/2 lard and 1/2 butter (not sure how one divides 2/3 in half-but--)
1/2 cup nuts
2 eggs
1 cup gum drops-cut in pieces
2 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon Baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
Press balls down with fork dipped in milk. (I'm assuming here one rolls the dough into a ball and press with the fork like one does with peanut butter cookies.) no time or temp given. Would guess 350 for about 15 minutes

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Chunk Pickles
1 gallon water
1 cup salt
cover pickles and let stand 3 days. drain
add fresh water let stand 3 days drain
The seventh day cut in chunks the size preferred. Put in brine of 2 cups vinegar and enough cold water to cover. Add 1 teaspoon (rounded) alum. Cover with grape leaves and simmer for an hour until pickles look clean, DO NOT BOIL
Let stand in this brine for 3 days--Drain
Put back in crock.
Make syrup of 3 lbs sugar
1 pint vinegar
1 stick cinnamon
1 Tablespoon mustard seed
1/2 teaspoon whole cloves
1/2 teaspoon whole allspice
Heat this for 3 mornings then can.

Tried chocolate cake

Tried the chocolate cake from earlier, the one where you put the dry cake mix over the liquid. WELL, it was good, however when I make it again, will take about a cup and a half of the hot water and actually mix the dry cake mix with that and then put it over the water/cocoa/brown sugar/ marshmallows mixture in the pan. I think spooning it over the top will work better. served it with whipped topping. It made kind of a pudding on the bottom with cake on the top.