Name: Salt Preserved Cucumbers, for Sauces, Soups, &C.
Ingredients: line cucumbers of a tolerable size; boiling hot water; coarse sea salt

Salt Preserved Cucumbers, for Sauces, Soups, &C.

Ingredients

line cucumbers of a tolerable size
boiling hot water
coarse sea salt

Directions

Pour boiling hot water over the cucumbers.
Add coarse sea salt to the mixture.
Allow the cucumbers to soak in the salted water for preservation.

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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Salt Preserved Cucumbers, for Sauces, Soups, &C.