Counter Top Pickles
Arwilda kept two different recipes with this title.
Boiled-brine recipe
Clear Tote Cherie Pittman card
Ingredients
- 1 qt water
- 1 qt Cider Vinegar
- 1/4 cup Canning salt
- 1/2 cup horseradish
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup Dry Mustard
- 1 tsp Alum.
Directions
- Boil;
- add (cucumbers.)
Equipment: 1 gallon jar
As written
Cherie Pittman
Arwilda’s changes
- Added “1/4 cup Canning salt”
No-boil gallon-jug recipe
Blue Binder Arlene Pittman card
From Arlene Pittman.
Ingredients
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup Horse Radish
- ½ cup dry mustard (can use reg. mustard)
- ¼ cup canning salt (or ½ cup regular salt)
- 1 teaspoon Alum
- 1 qt cider Vinegar
- 1 qt of Water
Directions
- Mix together
- Put above in a gallon jug and mix well.
- Add cucumbers to jar
- if small cut ends off and if Big cut length wise.
- Let set a couple days before using
- Turn jar back & forth once a day.
Timing: a couple days before using; once a day
Equipment: gallon jug; jar
Notes
- if fruit flys Bother put towel over jar
As written
(if fruit flys Bother put towel over jar)
Blue Binder edited card
Ingredients
- 10 gherkin
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup Horse Radish
- 1/2 cup dry Mustard (can use regular Mustard)
- 1/4 cup canning salt (or 1/2 cup regular salt)
- 1 Alum
- 1 qt cider Vinegar
- 1 qt Water
Directions
- Put all above in a gallon jug and mix well!
- Add cucumbers to jar
- if small cut ends off and use whole
- if Big cut length Ways
- Let set a couple days before using. Turn jar back & forth to mix up.
Timing: Let set a couple days before using.
Equipment: gallon jug; jar; knife and cutting board; towel if needed
Notes
- (if fruit flies bother put Towel over jar)
As written
Devil Pickles
Arwilda’s changes
- Changed “teaspoon” to “1 Alum”
Compare the cards
Brine preparation and countertop method
- Clear Tote Cherie Pittman card
- Boil the brine; the final cucumber instruction is abbreviated and uncertain.
- Blue Binder Arlene Pittman card
- Mix the ingredients in a gallon jug without a boil instruction, add cucumbers, let set a couple days, and turn once a day.
- Blue Binder edited card
- Mix the ingredients in a gallon jug without a boil instruction, add cucumbers, let set a couple days, and turn to mix.
Alum quantity wording
- Clear Tote Cherie Pittman card
- 1 teaspoon alum
- Blue Binder Arlene Pittman card
- 1 teaspoon alum
- Blue Binder edited card
- 1 [teaspoon crossed out] alum, leaving no active unit
Pittman name
- Clear Tote Cherie Pittman card
- Cherie Pittman appears in the corner; role uncertain.
- Blue Binder Arlene Pittman card
- Arlene Pittman appears as a clear attribution.
- Blue Binder edited card
- A two-line upper-left notation may end Pittman, but its full reading and role are unresolved.
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