Sweet Cucumber Pickles
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Sweet Cucumber Pickles
Ingredients
- 7 lbs cucumbers
- 2 ½ lbs brown sugar
- 2 pints vinegar
- 1 tablespoon whole spice
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon sticks
- 1 tablespoon celery seed
Directions
- cut green cucumbers in ½ pieces
- Soak them in strong brine for 3 days. (A strong brine is salty water strong enough to float an egg)
- Drain and soak them in fresh water for 3 days without changing water, but stir once or twice.
- Drain again and simmer slowly 20 or 30 minutes in cider vinegar diluted ½.
- Add 2 or 3 grape leaves and drain
- Boil the 2 pints of vinegar and other ingredients 3 minutes and pour over cucumbers boiling hot. Let stand 24 hours. Then drain off liquid
Timing: 3 days; 3 days; 20 or 30 minutes; 3 minutes; 24 hours
Arwilda’s changes
- Changed “crossed-out word” to “float”
- Changed “diluted” to “diluted ½”
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Directions
- Heat it to boiling point and pour over pickles.
- Repeat the process of covering the pickles with boiling liquid for 4 successive days.
- The last day let the liquid come to a rolling boil, drop pickles into the boiling liquid. Then put into clean hot jars and seal.
Timing: 4 successive days
Temperature: boiling point, boiling liquid, rolling boil, and clean hot jars
Equipment: heating vessel, clean hot jars, and sealing equipment
Notes
- a pretty good pickle.
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