Cucumber Pickles for Winter Use

Ingredients

• Take of small-sized fresh cucumbers as many as desired for summer use
• enough salt to make sufficient brine to cover them, no water

Method

1. 1

   Wash and put them in a crock or barrel.

2. 2

   First, a layer of cucumbers, then one of rock salt, cover with a cloth; keep them under the brine with a heavy board and a weight on top.

3. 3

   Each time more fresh cucumbers are added, take out those already in brine, putting the new ones at the bottom.

4. 4

   Rinse the cloth every time you put in fresh cucumbers.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The national course in home economics (1917) by Ruth Allen Beezley, page 263. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CUCUHBER PICKLES FOR WINTER USE. The best way to put down cucumbers for winter use, especially when a panful or so are gathered at a time, is to wash and put them in a crock or barrel. First, a layer of cucumbers, then one of rock salt (enough salt to make sufficient brine to cover them, no water), cover with a cloth; keep them under the brine with a heavy board and a weight on top; each time more fresh cucumbers are added take out those already in brine, putting the new ones at the bottom; rinse the cloth every time you put in fresh cucumbers, as a scum will rise and settle upon it. Use plenty of salt and the pickles will keep one year. To prepare pickles for use, soak in luke- warm water, changing it three times a day, and keep in a warm place until they are fresh enough, then pour plain or spiced vinegar over and let them stand twenty-four hours, then pour that off and put on fresh. In gather- ing cucumbers cut them off the vines with shears. Pulling or twisting them off injures the vines. Marion Miller. CUCUHBER PICKLES FOR 5UnnER USE. Take of small-sized fresh cucumbers as many as desired for summer use

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