Ripe Cucumber Pickles (Sweet)

Ingredients

• Pare and seed large ripe cucumbers
• put them in a syrup of one pint of vinegar
• with one pound of sugar
• one ounce of cassia buds
• a few sticks of cinnamon and a few cloves

Method

1. 1

   Slice each cucumber crosswise at the center and lengthwise into eight pieces.

2. 2

   Let them stand twelve hours covered with weak salt and water.

3. 3

   Drain and then boil them ten minutes in equal parts of vinegar and water, and let stay in this twenty-four hours.

4. 4

   Drain once more, then put them in a syrup of vinegar and sugar.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The national course in home economics (1917) by Ruth Allen Beezley, page 265. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

RIPE CUCUMBER PICKLES (SWEET). Pare and seed large ripe cucumbers Slice each cucumber crosswise at the center and lengthwise into eight pieces Let them stand twelve hours covered with weak salt and water. Drain and then boil them ten minutes in equal parts of vinegar and water, and let stay in this twenty- four hours. Drain once more, then put them in a syrup of one pint of vinegar with one pound of sugar and one ounce of cassia buds, a few sticks of cinnamon and a few cloves

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