To pickle CUCUMBERS in slices

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Ingredients (8)
For pickling cucumbers
Instructions (9)
  1. Get your cucumbers large, before the seeds are ripe, slice them a quarter of an inch thick.
  2. Lay them on a hair sieve, and betwixt every lay put a shallot or two, throw on a little salt.
  3. Let them stand four or five hours to drain.
  4. Put them in a stone jar.
  5. Take as much strong allegar as will cover them, boil it five minutes, with a blade or two of mace, a few white pepper corns, a little ginger sliced, and some horse-radish scraped.
  6. Pour it boiling hot upon your cucumbers.
  7. Let them stand till they are cold.
  8. Repeat the process of pouring boiling allegar and letting it cool three more times.
  9. Tie them down with a bladder for use.
Original Text
To pickle CUCUMBERS in slices. GET your cucumbers large, before the seeds are ripe, slice them a quarter of an inch thick, then lay them on a hair sieve, and betwixt every lay put a shallot or two, throw on a little salt, let them stand four or five hours to drain, then put them in a stone jar, take as much strong allegar as will cover them, boil it five minutes, with a blade or two of mace, a few white pepper corns, a little ginger sliced, and some horse-radish scraped, then pour it boiling hot upon your cucumbers, let them stand till they are cold, do so for three times more: let it grow cold betwixt every time, then tie them down with a bladder for use.
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