Name: To Pickle Young Cucumbers
Ingredients: nice young gherkins; coarse sea salt; boiling vinegar; vine leaves

To Pickle Young Cucumbers

Ingredients

nice young gherkins
coarse sea salt
boiling vinegar
vine leaves

Directions

Spread gherkins on dishes and salt them. Let them sit for a week.
Drain the gherkins and place them in a jar.
Pour boiling vinegar over the gherkins.
Cover with vine leaves and set near the fire.
If they are not a good green, pour the vinegar into another jar, heat it until boiling, and pour it over the gherkins again, covering with fresh leaves.

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.