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French Pickle

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France

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

  • Preserving. Old preserving methods may not make food safe to keep. Use current tested guidance.
  • Curing. Old curing amounts and salts may be unsafe. Use current tested guidance.
  • Storage. The keeping times and places here are from before refrigeration. Follow current storage guidance.

Ingredients 12 ingredients

  1. three quarts of green tomatoes
  2. ten cups mustard seed
  3. three quarts onions
  4. Salt
  5. one ounce black pepper
  6. one pound brown sugar
  7. three quarts cucumbers
  8. one tablespoon turmeric
  9. one gallon vinegar
  10. one ounce allspice
  11. two tablespoons ground mustard
  12. one ounce celery seed
Contains CeleryMustardSulphites Read from the ingredients, not verified. Check labels.

Possible health benefits

General information, not medical advice.

  1. Cucumber Source of vitamin K · Source of protein

    Source of vitamin K · 16 µg per 100 g, 22% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Vitamin K contributes to normal blood clotting.
    • Vitamin K contributes to the maintenance of normal bones.

    Vitamin K is a nutrient that the body needs to stay healthy. It’s important for blood clotting and healthy bones and also has other functions in the body. NIH fact sheet

    Source of protein · 0.7 g per 100 g, 17% of the energy from protein

    • Protein contributes to a growth in muscle mass.
    • Protein contributes to the maintenance of muscle mass.
    • Protein contributes to the maintenance of normal bones.

    Nutrients per 100 g of “Cucumber, with peel, raw”, USDA FoodData Central.

Claims: EU Register of health claims (Regulation (EU) No 432/2012, © European Union, CC BY 4.0), shown only where the ingredient meets the claim's conditions (Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006). Nutrients: USDA FoodData Central (CC0). Facts: NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (public domain).

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.

Method

  1. Take three quarts of green tomatoes, three quarts cucumbers, and three quarts onions, salt, one ounce celery seed, one ounce allspice, one ounce black pepper, ten cups mustard seed, one tablespoon turmeric, one pound brown sugar, two tablespoons ground mustard, one gallon vinegar, a cauliflower, put all in brine, let it stand two days, then boil it from three to four hours ;
  2. this is splendid.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan