HiGDUM

Ingredients

• Four quarts of cucumbers
• two quarts of chopped onions
• a handful of salt
• one gill of sweet oil
• one pint of Madeira wine
• a tablespoonful of black pepper
• one of cayenne
• one of mustard-seed
• one of flour of mustard
• cover with strong vinegar

Method

1. 1

   Chop cucumbers fine with skins on and mix with chopped onions and salt.

2. 2

   Let drain for six hours.

3. 3

   Add sweet oil, Madeira wine, black pepper, cayenne, mustard-seed, and flour of mustard.

4. 4

   Put in a stone jar and cover with strong vinegar.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The hearthstone; or, Life at home (1883) by Laura C. Holloway, page 298. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

HiGDUM. — Four quarts of cucumbers chopped fine with skins on ; add two quarts of chopped onions; mix in a handful of salt, and let it drain six hours. Then add one gill of sweet oil, one pint of Madeira wine, a tablespoonful of black pepper, one of cayenne, one of mustard- seed, one of flour of mustard. Put it in a stone jar, and cover with strong vinegar

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