Pickled Gherkins

Ingredients

• Put them into a jar
• Put them into strong salt and water
• add to it as much vinegar as is necessary, suppose two quarts
• oz. of mace
• 6 cloves
• % oz. of ginger
• % oz. of black pepper
• a table spoonful of salt

Method

1. 1

   Put them into strong salt and water, stir twice a day; take out and place in a jar with vine leaves, and pour boiling vinegar over them.

2. 2

   When cold, heat the vinegar again, cover the gherkins with fresh vine leaves, and pour it upon them; repeat till of a good colour.

3. 3

   Then add the spices and boil for five minutes, and pour upon the gherkins.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Consult me (1902) by Robert Kemp Philp, page 237. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Put them into strong salt and water, and stir twice a day ; take out and place in a jar with vine leaves, and pour boiling vinegar over them. When cold heat the vinegar again, cover the gherkins with fresh vine leaves, and pour it upon them ; repeat till of a good colour. Then add to it as much vinegar as is necessary, suppose two quarts, oz. of mace, 6 cloves, % oz. of ginger, % oz. of black pepper, and a table spoonful of salt. Boil five minutes, and pour upon thp niplrlp GHERKINS, to Pickle. — Put them into a jar

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