Cucumber Pickles
Ingredients
Directions
Pour boiling water over cucumbers and drain well.
Pack cucumbers in coarse sea salt.
When ready to pickle, place desired cucumbers in a jar and cover with boiling water.
Once cool, drain and pour over more boiling water.
Repeat this process one more time and then drain again.
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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