Cucumber Pickles

Ingredients

• 1 peck small white cucumbers
• 1 pint water
• 1 cup salt
• 3 pints vinegar
• 1/2 cups brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon tumeric

Method

1. 1

   Wash cucumbers and cover with salt and ice.

2. 2

   Let stand for 2 hours.

3. 3

   Boil vinegar and water with sugar and spices.

4. 4

   Add cucumbers, let come to a boil but do not boil.

5. 5

   Fill sterilized jars with cucumbers and hot vinegar.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Favorite recipes (North Carolina, 1948) (1948) by Women's Guild Corinth Evangelical and Reformed Church (Hickory, North Carolina), page 16. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 tablespoon tumeric. Cook until onions are tender. Mrs. J. T. Regan OVER NIGHT STRAWBERRY PRESERVES 2 quarts large, firm, ripe straw- 6 cups sugar berries Wash berries and scald, leaving in boiling water for two minutes. Drain well and add 4 cups sugar. Boil 2 minutes, counting the ‘time after the entire contents start to boil. Remove from fire and after bubbling stops add 2 cups sugar and boil 5 minutes. Pour into shallow pan so there won’t be more than one inch thickness. Let stand over- night. Next morning pour into sterilized jars and seal with paraffin, then with rubber and top. Make only 2 quarts at a time. Mrs. Hugo Dressler CHOW-CHOW 1 peck green tomatoes 9 onions 2 peck green peppers 8 to 12 hot. red peppers 1 medium head of cabbage Put in enamel or stone pot, add 1 cup salt and let stand overnight. Heat 1 gallon of vinegar, 2 cups sugar, 1 package of pickling spice (tied in cheese cloth.) Squeeze all ground mixture dry. A potato ricer is good to use. Add ground mixture to hot vinegar with 2 tablespoons white mustard seed and 2 tablespoons celery seed. Simmer about 15 minutes. Put in jars and seal. Mrs. Charles Menzies, Jr. CUCUMBER PICKLES Chill cucumbers. Sprinkle salt on them and let stand for an hour. Pour boiling water over them and let stand until cool enough to put hands in. Drop in boiling vinegar and let come to a rolling boil. (Season vinegar with sugar—1 cup sugar to one quart of vinegar—and spices before adding cucumbers.) Pack in jars and seal. Mrs. Joseph Murphy COOK BOOK 37 CUCUMBER PICKLES 1 peck small white cucumbers 1 pint water 1 cup salt 38 cups brown sugar 3 pints vinegar

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