Pickled Vegetables

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Ingredients (12)
vegetables for pickling
for salting and drying
for layering
for the pickling liquid
Instructions (11)
  1. Put the prepared vegetables on a hair sieve.
  2. Throw a large handful of salt over them.
  3. Set them in the sun-shine or before the fire for three days to dry.
  4. When all the water has run out of them, put them into a large earthen pot in layers.
  5. Between every layer, put a handful of brown mustard seed.
  6. Take as much ale allegar as you think will cover the vegetables.
  7. To every four quarts of allegar, put an ounce of turmerick.
  8. Boil the allegar and turmerick together.
  9. Pour the hot mixture upon your pickle.
  10. Let it stand for twelve days upon the hearth, or until the pickles are all of a bright yellow colour and most of the allegar is sucked up.
  11. Then take two quarts of strong ale.
Original Text
GET a white cabbage, one cauliflower, a few small cucumbers, radish-pods, kidney beans, and a little beet root, or any other thing you commonly pickle; then put them on a hair sieve, and throw a large handful of salt over them, and set them in the sun-shine, for before the fire, for three days to dry; when all the water is run out of them put them into a large earthen pot in layers, and betwixt every layer put a handful of brown mustard seed, then take as much ale allegar as you think will cover it, and to every four quarts of allegar put an ounce of turmerick, boil them together, and pour it hot upon your pickle, and let it stand twelve days upon the hearth, or till the pickles are all of a bright yellow colour, and most of the allegar sucked up; then take two quarts of strong ale
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