To Make Over Bought Pickles

Ingredients

• enough cucumbers out of vinegar
• eight medium-sized onions
• two and a half pints of best cider vinegar
• one pound of brown sugar
• half an ounce of tumeric
• half an ounce of cinnamon
• half an ounce of cloves
• one table-spoonful of black mustard-seed
• one of white mustard-seed
• half an ounce of celery-seed
• a few blades of mace

Method

1. 1

   Slice onions and soak in salt-water overnight, rinse, and mix with cucumbers.

2. 2

   Boil vinegar with sugar and spices, then add cucumbers and onions until pickles are a rich citron color.

3. 3

   Let cool and seal.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 43. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

TO MAKE OVER BOUGHT PICKLES. To make one gallon, take enough cucumbers out of vine- gar, and add eight medium-sized onions; slice the onions, and let them soak in salt-water all night; then rinse them ofF, and mix with the cucumbers. Put in a porcelain kettle two and a half pints of best cider vinegar, one pound of brown sugar, half an ounce of tumeric, half an ounce of cinnamon, half an ounce of cloves, one table-spoonful of black and one of white mustard-seed, half an ounce of cel- ery-seed, and a few blades of mace

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