Home-Made Pickles

Ingredients

• one cup of salt
• six quarts of water
• some weak vinegar
• small lumps of alum
• a gallon of vinegar
• an ounce of seed to a gallon of vinegar
• a lump of alum the size of a butternut

Method

1. 1

   Pour hot salt and water over cucumbers for three mornings.

2. 2

   On the fourth morning, use weak vinegar with alum, then place cucumbers in jars and cover with cold vinegar, adding red peppers and mustard seed.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooks in clover (1889), page 17. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Home-Made Pickles. — Take small cucumbers and for three mornings pour hot salt and water over them, in the proportion of one cup of salt to six quarts of water, being careful to have it fresh every morning. The fourth morning take some weak vinegar with small lumps of alum in it, and turn it over the cucumbers, allowing them to remain in it till next day; then take them out of the vine gar, put them in stone jars, glass cans or bottles ; pour over them cold vinegar of good strength, ad ding pieces of red peppers, and plenty of white mustard seed — an ounce of seed to a gallon of vine gar, and a lump of alum the size of a butternut. I Seal the jars and they will keep a long time. Mrs. A. M. Sproull. French Pickles. — Four quarts of green tomatoes, one quart each of small onions and small cucumbers, one small head of cabbage, and one head of cauli- flower. Cut them into small pieces and let them stand twenty-four hours in a light brine ; then boil ten minutes in the brine, and drain in a colander very dry. Dressing: — Six teaspoons of ground mustard, one tablespoon of turmeric powder, one and a half cups of sugar, and one cup of flour. Mix these with water enough to form a paste. Bring to a boiling heat two and a half quarts of vinegar, and six green peppers chopped ; stir in the paste, cook as thick as soft custard, put in the pickles and seal them in fruit cans. Mrs. Frank Hughes. Curry Pickles. — Wash and dry six hundred very 28 COOKS IN CLOVER. small cucumbers, and put them in jars. Boil together one gallon of vinegar

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