Name: To Pickle Gheekins and French Beans
Ingredients: Fine fresh gherkins; Brine (saltwater solution); Boiling vinegar; Spices (your choice); Fresh vine leaves

To Pickle Gheekins and French Beans

Ingredients

Directions

Soak the gherkins in brine for one week.
Drain the gherkins and cover them with fresh vine leaves.
Pour boiling vinegar over the gherkins.
If the gherkins are not a fine green, boil the vinegar again, cover with fresh vine leaves, and pour the vinegar over them once more.

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.