Pickled Cucumbers
Ingredients
Directions
Dissolve a small piece of alum in water.
Submerge cucumbers in the alum water.
Afterwards, place them in spiced vinegar with another small piece of alum.
Cover well and let them sit on the stove over low heat all morning.
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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