To pickle RADISH PODS

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784

Source: The Experienced English Housekeeper
Status: success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (8)

for pickling

radish pods ↝ Radishes, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
salt and water ↝ Salt, table, iodized [Spices and Herbs]
white wine vinegar ↝ Vinegar, red wine [Spices and Herbs]
a little mace ↝ Spices, mace, ground [Spices and Herbs]
ginger ↝ Ginger root, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
long pepper ↝ Peppers, raw, NFS [Other vegetables and combinations]
horse-radish ↝ Radishes, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
a bladder

Instructions (11)

Gather radish pods when they are quite young.
Put them in salt and water all night.
Boil the salt and water they were laid in, and pour it upon your pods.
Cover your jars close to keep in the steam.
When it grows cold make it boiling hot, and pour it on again.
Keep doing so till your pots are quite green.
Put them on a sieve to drain.
Make a pickle for them of white wine vinegar, with a little mace, ginger, long pepper, and horse-radish.
Pour the pickle boiling hot upon your pods.
When it is almost cold, make your vinegar twice hot as before, and pour it upon them.
Tie them down with a bladder.

Original Text

To pickle RADISH PODS.

GATHER your radish pods when they are quite young, and put them in salt and water all night, then boil the salt and water they were laid in, and pour it upon your pods, and cover your jars close to keep in the steam; when it grows cold make it boiling hot, and pour it on again; keep doing so till your pots are quite green, then put them on a sieve to drain, and make a pickle for them of white wine vinegar, with a little mace, ginger, long pepper, and horse-radish, pour it boiling hot upon your pods, when it is almost cold, make your vinegar twice hot as before, and pour it upon them, and tie them down with a bladder.

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