Mixed Pickles

Ingredients

• Three hundred small cucumbers
• four green peppers sliced fine
• two large or three small heads cauliflower
• three heads white cabbage shaved fine
• nine large onions sliced
• one large root horseradish
• one quart green beans cut one inch long
• one quart green tomatoes sliced
• a quarter pound black
• a quarter pound white
• one tablespoon black ground pepper

Method

1. 1

   Put this mixture in a pretty strong brine for twenty-four hours; drain three hours, then sprinkle in a quarter pound black and a quarter pound white mustard seed; also one tablespoon black ground pepper; let it come to a good boil in just vinegar enough to cover it, adding a little alum.

2. 2

   Drain again, and when cold, mix in a half pint ground mustard; cover the whole with good cider vinegar; add turmeric enough to color, if you like.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mother's Cook Book: Containing Recipes for Every Day in the Week, Including .. (1902) by Marion Harland, page 64. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MIXED PICKLES. Three hundred small cucumbers, four green peppers sliced fine, two large or three small heads cauliflower. 148 Mother's Cook Book. three heads white cabbage shaved fine, nine large onions sliced, one large root horseradish, one quart green beans cat one inch long, one quart green tomatoea sliced; pat this mixture in a pretty strong brine twenty-four hours; drain three hours, then sprinkle in a quarter pound black and a quarter pound white mustard seed; also one tablespoon black ground pepper

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