Name: To Pickle Nasturtiums
Ingredients: young nasturtiums; old vinegar (from green pickles or onions); fresh vinegar; salt; spices

To Pickle Nasturtiums

Ingredients

Directions

Pick young nasturtiums on a warm day.
Place them in a jar of old vinegar or boil fresh vinegar with salt and spices.
Let the vinegar cool, then add the nasturtiums.
Use stone or glass jars for pickling.
Avoid using your hands to take out pickles; use a wooden spoon with holes instead.

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.