Cucumber Pickles No. 1

Ingredients

• 1 gallon of vinegar
• 1 cup salt
• 1 tablespoon pulverized alum
• | bushel cucumbers

Method

1. 1

   Cut cucumbers from the vine, fill a jar with them, and pour boiling water over with a little salt.

2. 2

   Let stand for 6 hours or overnight, then put into cold vinegar.

3. 3

   Scald pickles in vinegar mixture and pour on new vinegar with spices.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household cook book (1902) by Smiley, James B[ethuel],, page 396. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 gallon of vinegar add 1 cup salt and 1 tablespoon pulverized alum, and scald the pickles in this mixture; pour it ofp, and pour on new vinegar, with spice, red peppers, cinnamon, root ginger and cloves. Cucumber Pickles No. 2. — Take | bushel cucumbers

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