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Pickles

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Pickles

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Gather the best quality fruit at the right time.

  2. Wash the fruit in fresh cold well-water.

  3. Soak the fruit in strong brine for some time.

  4. Lay the fruit on hurdles to dry completely in the air.

  5. Fill bottles nearly with the dried fruit.

  6. Top off the bottles with hot-spiced vinegar.

  7. Cork the bottles immediately and seal them when cold.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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