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To Pickle Gherkins and French Beans

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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To Pickle Gherkins and French Beans

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak the gherkins in brine for one week.

  2. Drain the gherkins and cover them with fresh vine leaves.

  3. Pour boiling vinegar, prepared with spices, over the gherkins.

  4. If the gherkins are not a fine green, pour off the vinegar, boil it again, and repeat the process with fresh vine 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.

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