Cucumber Pickles

Original Recipe

A good way to put down cucumbers, a few at a time:-- When gathered from the vines, wash, and put in a firkin or half barrel layers or cucumbers and rock-salt alternately, enough salt to make sufficient brine to cover them, no water; cover with a cloth; keep them under the brine with a heavy board; take off the cloth, and rinse it every time you put in fresh cucumbers, as a scum will rise and settle upon it. Use plenty of salt and it will keep a year. To prepare pickles for use, soak in hot water, and keep in a warm place until they are fresh enough, then pour spiced vinegar over them and let them stand over night, then pour that off and put on fresh.

Ingredients

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  • 1 good way to put down cucumbers
  • 1 cloth
  • 1 heavy board
  • 1 scum will rise and settle upon it
  • 1 year
  • 1 warm place until they are fresh enough

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Instructions

  1. 1

    A good way to put down cucumbers, a few at a time:-- When gathered from the vines, wash, and put in a firkin or half barrel layers or cucumbers and rock-salt alternately, enough salt to make sufficient brine to cover them, no water; cover with a cloth; keep them under the brine with a heavy board; take off the cloth, and rinse it every time you put in fresh cucumbers, as a scum will rise and settle upon it.

  2. 2

    Use plenty of salt and it will keep a year.

  3. 3

    To prepare pickles for use, soak in hot water, and keep in a warm place until they are fresh enough, then pour spiced vinegar over them and let them stand over night, then pour that off and put on fresh.

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Recipe by Mrs. F.L. Gillette from The White House Cook Book , For Winter Use (1887)