German Method of Keeping Cucumbers for Winter Use
A historical recipe from The Book of Household Management, by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) (1861).
A historical recipe
The Book of Household Management, by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) (1861). Project Gutenberg eBook #10136.
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Method
- 402.
- INGREDIENTS.--Cucumbers, salt.
- Mode.--Pare and slice the cucumbers (as for the table), sprinkle well with salt, and let them remain for 24 hours;
- strain off the liquor, pack in jars, a thick layer of cucumbers and salt alternately;
- tie down closely, and, when wanted for use, take out the quantity required.
- Now wash them well in fresh water, and dress as usual with pepper, vinegar, and oil.
- THE CUCUMBER.--Though the melon is far superior in point of flavour to this fruit, yet it is allied to the cucumber, which is known to naturalists as Cucumia sativus.
- The modern Egyptians, as did their forefathers, still eat it, and others of its class.
- Cucumbers were observed, too, by Bishop Heber, beyond the Ganges, in India;
- and Burckhardt noticed them in Palestine.
- (See No.
- 127.)