Name: To Pickle Cucumbers
Ingredients: small cucumbers; strong salt; water; vine leaves

To Pickle Cucumbers

Ingredients

small cucumbers
strong salt
water
vine leaves

Directions

Wash cucumbers and place them in a mixture of strong salt and water for 9 days, stirring twice daily.
Once they turn yellow, drain the water and cover cucumbers with vine leaves.
Boil fresh water and pour it over the cucumbers, then keep them warm.
When the water cools, boil it again and repeat pouring over the cucumbers until they turn a fine green, which should take 4 to 5 times.

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.