Name: Salt Cucumber Pickles
Ingredients: Fresh cucumbers; Boiling water; Brine (saltwater solution)

Salt Cucumber Pickles

Ingredients

Fresh cucumbers
Boiling water
Brine (saltwater solution)

Directions

Place fresh, unwashed cucumbers in a vessel and cover with boiling water.
Once cooled, pour off the water and cover again with hot water.
When cooled, transfer cucumbers to a cask filled with brine strong enough for salt to settle at the bottom.
Stir thoroughly each time you add fresh cucumbers, ensuring salt remains at the bottom.
When the cask is full, cover the pickles with a cloth and a slight weight.
Occasionally remove and rinse the cloth.

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.