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- From: roche@rochester (James Roche)
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- Subject: RECIPE: Sour cucumber pickles
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- Date: 14 Nov 86 02:14:50 GMT
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- Organization: University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE SOUR-PICKLES-1 AV "19 May 86" 1986
- .RZ "SOUR CUCUMBER PICKLES" "The most lip smackin' pickles you ever tasted."
- This recipe came from my wife's grandmother.
- .IH "makes 4 cups" "makes 1 liter"
- .IG "4 cups" "small cucumbers" "1 l"
- .IG "4 tsp" "sugar" "20 ml"
- .IG "2 tsp" "canning/pickling salt" "10 ml"
- .IG "2 tsp" "dry mustard" "10 ml"
- .IG "1/8 tsp" "alum" "0.5 ml"
- .IG "" "cider vinegar"
- .IG "" "water"
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Wash cucumbers in cool water and pack into a canning jar big enough to hold
- them.
- .SK 2
- Add sugar, salt, dry mustard, and alum.
- .SK 3
- Fill jar about 2/3 full with vinegar. Fill remaining portion of jar to
- cover cucumbers with water.
- .SK 4
- Put lid on jar.
- .SK 5
- Agitate lightly every day for about a week to mix spices in with cucumbers.
- Then put in a cool dark place for about 3 months while the cucumbers work.
- .NX
- Don't be too impatient to try the pickles. They taste terrible if they
- haven't worked. Also, you do not have to seal these jars. They will keep
- for quite some time if stored in a cool/dark location.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- easy
- .I Time:
- 10 minutes preparation, 3 months waiting.
- .I Precision:
- Approximate measurement OK.
- .WR
- Jim Roche
- University of Rochester Rochester, NY
- roche@rochester.arpa caip!rochester!roche
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