Dixie Pickles
Decorative Recipe Tin two-sided handwritten card
From Millie, written alone at upper right; role unclear.
Ingredients
- 2 gal. dill size pickles cut lengthwise in strips or cut in round slices or all crystal pickles
- 1 gal of boiling water to which 1 pt of salt has been added
- 1 gal boiling water
- 1 gal boiling water & 2 tsp of alum
- 2½ qts vinegar, 8 pts sugar & ½ cup mixed pickle spice
Directions
- 1st day - thru 7th let stand in brine of 1 gal of boiling water to which 1 pt of salt has been added - stir once every day
- 8th day - drain - add 1 gal boiling water - let stand overnight.
- 9th day - drain - add 1 gal boiling water & 2 tsp of alum - let [text clipped]
- 10th day - drain - add heated syrup → 2½ qts vinegar, 8 pts sugar & ½ cup mixed pickle spice
- 11th day - drain - reheat syrup + add to pickles.
- 12th day - drain + reheat syrup & add to pickles
- Put in crock + cover - no need to seal.
Timing: stand from the first through seventh day; stand overnight on the eighth day; ninth-day continuation clipped; repeat heated syrup on days ten, eleven, and twelve
Temperature: boiling water; heated syrup; reheated syrup
Equipment: knife; brining vessel; draining vessel; syrup-heating pot; stirring utensil; covered crock
As written
Millie
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