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Sweet Cucumber Pickle

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United States

Known as an American 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.
  • Additives or old utensils. The text names something no longer considered safe in food or for cooking in, such as lead, alum, borax, bitter almonds or copper pans. Don't use it.

Ingredients 10 ingredients

  1. Cloves
  2. one pint water
  3. three pounds sugar
  4. one quart good vinegar
  5. Mace
  6. Salt
  7. Tea
  8. four pounds cucumbers
  9. Cinnamon
  10. Ginger
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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.
  • 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. Slice cucumbers and soak in brine a week;
  2. then soak in salt water until the salt is extracted sufficiently.
  3. Boil in strong alum water half an hour, then in ginger tea half an hour.
  4. Make a syrup of one quart good vinegar, one pint water, three pounds sugar, to four pounds cucumbers;
  5. season with mace, cinnamon, cloves, and celery-seed.
  6. Put in the cucumbers and boil till the syrup is thick enough.
  7. Add some sliced ginger.--Mrs.
  8. S.
  9. M.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board