alegar

• “This was the standard form of vinegar in beer-drinking Britain, where it was originally called alegar.”

  Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

• “Take a little alegar or white wine vinegar, and put to it two or three blades of mace, with a little whole pepper and Jamaica pepper, a few bay leaves and salt, put to your buds, and scald them two or three times, then they are fit for use.”

  English Housewifery

• “Take a little good alegar, put to it a little long pepper and”

  English Housewifery

• “Jamaica pepper, a few bay leaves, a little horse-radish, a handful or two of mustard-seed, a little salt and a little rockambol if you have any, if not a few shalots; boil them altogether in the alegar, which put to your walnuts and let it stand three or four days, giving them a scald once a day, then tie them up for use.”

  English Housewifery

• “Take a quart of vinegar or alegar, put it into a jug, then take”

  English Housewifery

• “Take a little alegar, (the quantity must be equal to the quantity of your cucumbers, and so must your seasoning) a little pepper, a little Jamaica and long pepper, two or three shalots, a little horse-radish scraped or sliced, and little salt and a bit of allum, boil them altogether, and scald your cucumbers two or three times with your pickle, so tie them up for use.”

  English Housewifery

• “Scale and clean your herrings, take out the milts and roans, and skewer them round, season them with a little pepper and salt, put them in a deep pot, cover them with alegar, put to them a little whole Jamaica pepper, and two or three bay leaves; bake them and keep them for use.”

  English Housewifery

• “And as to your Rhenish and claret, and such stuff, I would not give a penny for the lot -- I'd as soon have a quart of alegar.”

  It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot

• “She stuck to his heels all the way along, and she beat him black and blue with her tongue, and he looked like a butt of alegar with a hogshead o 'mustard in it.”

  All's Well Alice's Victory

• “And there is alegar in the house, plenty," added Matthew.”

  The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century

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