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Cauliflower, Pickled

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

  • Preserving. Old preserving methods may not make food safe to keep. Use current tested guidance.

Ingredients 7 ingredients

  1. Cut
  2. a quart of vinegar
  3. Water
  4. an ounce of mace
  5. Pickle
  6. an ounce of ginger
  7. two ounces of peppercorns
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. This pickle should be made about the beginning of August.
  2. Choose firm, fresh, white heads, and let them be cut on a dry day.
  3. Pare away the leaves and the stem, and place the flowers for flve minutes in boiling water, but do hot let them boil up.
  4. Drain them, and cut them into convenient-sized pieces, and leave them on a sieve to dry.
  5. Half flU jars with the flowers, cover with cold vinegar in which spices have been boiled, allowing a quart of vinegar to two ounces of peppercorns, a salt-spoonful of cayenne, an ounce of ginger, and half an ounce of mace.
  6. Cover closely.
  7. Probable cost.
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  9. per pint jar.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Sieve
  • Colander