Cinnamon Pickles
Arwilda kept two different recipes with this title.
One-ounce coloring, one-hour simmer, two-morning recipe
White Binder handwritten page
From Virginia [Clayson or Clay son]?
Ingredients
- 1 cup hydrated lime
- 8 1/2 cup cold water
- 8 lbs cucumbers - peeled cut in half
- 1 cup vinegar
- 1 oz bottle red food coloring
- 1 tablespoon powder alum
- 3 cups vinegar
- 2 cups water
- 1 package large cinnamon candies
- 8 sticks cinnamon
- 10 cups sugar.
Directions
- Scoop seeds out. Wash and cut into strips.
- Put cucumbers in lime water for 24 hours. Rinse really well, then soak in clear water overnite. Rinse well again.
- Add enough water to cover cucumbers.
- Simmer for 1 hour drain.
- Heat to boiling and pour over pickles. Let stand over nite.
- Drain syrup off every morning for 2 mornings. Heat to boiling and add back on pickles. On 4th morning put into jars and process 10 minutes.
Timing: 24 hours; soak overnite; simmer 1 hour; syrup stands over nite; every morning for 2 mornings; on 4th morning; process 10 minutes
Temperature: cold water; Simmer; Heat to boiling; repeated Heat to boiling; process
Equipment: peeler, knife and cutting surface, seed scoop, soaking vessels, rinsing and draining setup, simmering pot, syrup pot and stirring utensil, jars and closures, processing vessel, heat card
Notes
- (these in paper bags)
As written
Virginia Claypool?
Day 4 Food.
A complete recipe, likely attribution, Very Good evaluation, separate 4, and paper-bag note are visible.
Two-ounce coloring, 30-minute simmer, three-morning recipe
Blue Binder handwritten page
Ingredients
- 1 cup of Pickeling lime
- 8 1/2 cups cold water
- 8 lbs cucumbers
- 1 cup Vinegar
- 2 ozs red food coloring
- 1 Tablespoon powder Alum
- 3 cups Vinegar
- 2 cups water
- 1 package large Cinnamon Candies
- 8 stick cinnamon
- 10 cups sugar
Directions
- peeled cut in half, scoop out seeds - wash and cut into strips.
- Put cucumbers in lime Water for 24 hours. Rinse really well, then soak in clear water overnite. Rinse well again
- Mix 1 cup Vinegar, 2 ozs red food coloring, and 1 Tablespoon powder Alum; add enough water to cover. simmer for 30 min.
- Heat to Boiling and pour over pickles. Let stand over nite.
- Drain syrup off every morning for 3 mornings Heat to Boiling and pour back on pickles.
- On 4TH morning put into jars and process for 10 minutes.
Timing: 24 hours; overnite; 30 min.; over nite; every morning for 3 mornings; 4TH morning; 10 minutes
Equipment: jars
Compare the cards
Red food coloring
- Blue Binder handwritten page
- 2 ozs red food coloring
- White Binder handwritten page
- 1 oz bottle red food coloring
Alum-mixture simmer
- Blue Binder handwritten page
- simmer for 30 min.
- White Binder handwritten page
- Simmer for 1 hour; drain.
Morning syrup-reheating schedule
- Blue Binder handwritten page
- Drain and reheat every morning for 3 mornings; jar and process on the 4th morning.
- White Binder handwritten page
- Drain and reheat every morning for 2 mornings; jar and process on the 4th morning.
Attribution and evaluation
- Blue Binder handwritten page
- No attribution or evaluation is written.
- White Binder handwritten page
- Likely attributed to Virginia [Clayson or Clay son]? and marked Very Good.
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