Cucumber Salad

Arwilda kept four different recipes with this title.

Kellogg 20-to-30-minute low-heat recipe

Kellogg Salads cropped opening and untitled continuation cards

Cucumber Salad.

Ingredients
  • 3 large Cucumbers.
  • 4-6 Onions.
  • 2 1/2 cups vinegar
  • 2 cups Hot water
  • 1 Tablespoon Celery Seed!
  • handful of salt; cold water, quantity not stated
Directions
  1. Grind
  2. Put handful of salt on it and let stand over night.
  3. In The morning drain off the salty, rinse & put cold water over it.

Timing: over night

Untitled recipe partial recipe

Ingredients
  • 2 sweet peppers (ground)
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1/2 cup oil
  • 1 Tablespoon dry Mustard
  • 1 Tablespoon tumeric
Directions
  1. Cook about 20 minutes on Low heat.
  2. Can Hot.

Timing: Cook about 20 minutes; I simmer from 20 to 30 minutes

Temperature: Low heat; simmer; Can Hot

Equipment: grinder, measuring tools, cooking vessel, stirring utensil, and hot-canning jars and seals

Notes
  • Wet cups with some of the vinegar
  • (I simmer from 20 to 30 minutes)

Kellogg two-pepper partial formula and directions

Kellogg Misc. stained formula and directions cards

Cucumber Salad.

Ingredients
  • 7 large Cucumbers.
  • 4-6 onions.
  • 3/4 cup vinegar
  • 2 cups Hot Water.
  • 1 Tbl. celery seed
  • 2 1/2 cup sugar.
  • 2 sweet peppers.
  • 1/2 Cp flour; 1 tbl dry Mustard
Directions
  1. No confidently readable instruction; an isolated lower-right word or phrase is faint and partly clipped.
As written

Cucumber Salad. 7 large Cucumbers. 4-6 onions. 3/4 cup vinegar 2 cups Hot Water. 1 Tbl. celery seed 2 1/2 cup sugar. 2 sweet peppers. 1/2 Cp flour; 1 tbl dry Mustard No confidently readable instruction; an isolated lower-right word or phrase is faint and partly clipped. [A faint partly clipped word or phrase appears below the mustard line.]

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Ingredients
  • Cucumbers; a handful of Salt; rinse water; unspecified other ingredience; flour; mustard; tumeric; Vinegar
Directions
  1. Put a handful of Salt on Cucumbers
  2. let stand over night, next morning drain; if to salty rinse a little,
  3. Add other ingredience, mix flour mustard + tumeric up with some of The Vinegar.
  4. Cook + Can in hot jars, Seal.

Timing: let stand over night; next morning

Temperature: Cook; hot jars

Equipment: standing and draining vessel; rinsing setup; mixing vessel; cooking pot; hot canning jars and sealing equipment

Arwilda’s changes
  • Changed “Put Salt on Cucumbers” to “Put a handful of Salt on Cucumbers”
  • Crossed-out text before "drain" is unreadable.

Ten-minute boil and Can hot recipe

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Ingredients

  • 7 large cucumbers, green or ripe
  • 4-6 onions
  • 2 1/2 cups vinegar
  • 2 cups hot water
  • 1 dessert spoon celery seed
  • 2 1/2 cups sugar
  • 1 sweet pepper
  • 1/2 cup flour
  • 3 tsps. dry mustard
  • tsp. turmeric powder
  • a handful salt

Directions

  1. Peel and take seeds out of 7 large cucumbers, green or ripe, 4-6 onions.
  2. Put both through food chopper, sprinkle with a handful salt.
  3. Let stand over night and drain well.
  4. Put in kettle and add 2 1/2 cups vinegar, 2 cups hot water, 1 dessert spoon celery seed, 2 1/2 cups sugar, 1 sweet pepper chop fine.
  5. Mix together 1/2 cup flour, 3 tsps. dry mustard, tsp. turmeric powder, add to rest and boil at least 10 minutes.
  6. Can hot.

Timing: Let stand over night; boil at least 10 minutes

Temperature: hot water; boil; Can hot

Equipment: food chopper; kettle

Twenty-minute low-heat cook with 10-minute hot process

White Binder edited page 14

Ingredients

  • 7 large Cucumbers
  • 4 to 6 onions.
  • hand full of salt
  • 2 1/2 cups vinegar
  • 2 cups hot water
  • 1 teaspoon celery seed
  • blue (1) written immediately before the original 2 sweet peppers (green), with blue chopped fine added after
  • 2 1/2 cups sugar
  • 1/2 cup flour
  • (3 tsp) = 1 Tablespoon dry mustard
  • (3 tsp) = 1 tablespoon turmic

Directions

  1. Peel & take seeds out
  2. grind
  3. Put hand full of salt on it and let stand over night.
  4. In morning drain off, if to salty run a little cold water over it.
  5. Put into Kettle
  6. mix up with some Vinegar
  7. Bring to Boil = Cook about 20 minutes on low heat.
  8. Can Hot Process 10 min.

Timing: over night; about 20 minutes; 10 min.

Temperature: hot water; cold water; Bring to Boil; low heat; Can Hot

Equipment: grind; Kettle; hot-process canning

As written

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Syrup:

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Heat treatment and jar processing

Clear Tote two-sided complete card
Boil at least 10 minutes; Can hot
White Binder edited page 14
Bring to boil; cook about 20 minutes on low heat; Can Hot; Process 10 min.
Kellogg Salads cropped opening and untitled continuation cards
Cook about 20 minutes on Low heat; personal note I simmer from 20 to 30 minutes; Can Hot; no post-fill processing duration
Kellogg Misc. stained formula and directions cards
Cook; Can in hot jars; Seal, with no cooking or jar-processing duration

Sweet pepper quantity

Clear Tote two-sided complete card
1 sweet pepper
White Binder edited page 14
Original 2 sweet peppers, with later blue (1) immediately before and chopped fine added; final quantity unresolved
Kellogg Salads cropped opening and untitled continuation cards
2 sweet peppers (ground)
Kellogg Misc. stained formula and directions cards
2 sweet peppers

Celery seed measure

Clear Tote two-sided complete card
1 dessert spoon celery seed
White Binder edited page 14
Original 1 tablespoon celery seed corrected to 1 teaspoon
Kellogg Salads cropped opening and untitled continuation cards
1 tablespoon celery seed
Kellogg Misc. stained formula and directions cards
1 tablespoon celery seed

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