Cucumbers in Oil

Ingredients

• One hundred medium sized cucumbers
• add one pint salt
• add two pints of sliced onions
• four tablespoons black mustard seed
• four of white mustard seed
• two of celery seed
• one-half pint best olive oil
• one-half pint of white vinegar
• add one teaspoon powdered alum

Method

1. 1

   Slice cucumbers thin lengthwise, add salt, let stand overnight, drain.

2. 2

   Mix with onions and dressing of mustard seeds, celery seed, olive oil, and vinegar.

3. 3

   Add dissolved alum, cover with vinegar, and let stand for three weeks before using.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Council cook book (1908), page 52. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cucumbers in Oil. One hundred medium sized cucumbers, sliced thin lengthwise, add one pint salt, let stand over night, drain thoroughly in morning, add two pints WALTER BAKER'S COCOA AND CHOCOLATES Best in the World. Have held the Market 128 Years 160 COUNCIL COOK BOOK of sliced onions, then add dressing, consisting of four tablespoons black mustard seed, four of white mus- tard seed, two of celery seed, one-half pint best olive oil, one-half pint of white vinegar. Put cucumbers and onions into this, add one teaspoon powdered alum

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