Sweet Pickle

Ingredients

• Have a galloi;i of good cider vinegar
• 5 pounds of white sugar
• 1 ounce of cinnamon
• 1 ounce of mace
• nutmeg
• allspice
• some cloves
• orange peel

Method

1. 1

   While the melon is draining put on the vinegar and spices to boil.

2. 2

   While hot add the melon and let cook until tender.

3. 3

   Take off and pour into jar.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 15 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Kentucky receipt book (1903) by Mary Harris Frazer, page 197. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

sweet pickle, in the same proportion as other sweet pickle. They also make splendid preserves. Peach Pickle. Eight pounds of peaches, 4 pounds of sugar, 1 pint vinegar. Stick 3 cloves in each peach, add a few sticks of cinnamon. Put in peaches and cook until tender. Pour on a dish to cool, let remain 6 hours; then put fruit in glass jars and pour over the syrup. Sweet Pickle. Take cantaloupes that are just beginning to ripen, remove the rind and seed, cut into tolerably narrow slices and put into stone jars. Fill a kettle with vinegar and 1-3 water, add to it a piece of alum the size of a partridge egg, boil it, and while hot pour over the melon. Let it remain 14 hours, then take out the melon and throw away the vinegar and water. Have a galloi;i of good cider vinegar and add to it 5 pounds of white sugar, 1 ounce of cinna- mon, 1 ounce of mace, nutmeg and allspice, some cloves and orange peel

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