Stuffing for Forty Melons

Ingredients

• 1 pound white race ginger
• 1 pound horse-radish
• 1 pound mustard seed
• 1 pound onion
• 1 ounce mace
• 1 ounce nutmeg
• 2 ounces turmeric
• 1 handful black pepper
• 1/4 pound mustard
• 1 cup sweet oil
• 1 clove garlic

Instructions

1. Wash a pound of white race ginger very clean.
2. Pour boiling water on it, and let it stand twenty-four hours;
3. then slice it thin and dry it.
4. Take one pound of horse-radish scraped and dried, one pound of mustard seed washed and dried, one pound of chopped onion, one ounce of mace, one of nutmeg pounded fine, two ounces of turmeric, and a handful of whole black pepper.
5. Make these ingredients into a paste with a quarter of a pound of mustard and a large cup full of sweet oil.
6. Put a clove of garlic into each mango.