How to Pickle Gherkins
Year Aunt LMaisy, Please can you ,.zive me a recipe. for pickling gherkins? We have a lot growing and I want to pickle them. I have looked in both old and new cookery books, but cannot find a recipe.
R. G.
K.
Onehunga.
You should have looked in my No. 5 Book; there are two recipes there. Here is the easier one-you can halve the quantities if you wish. Fifty gherkins, 1 quart best vinegar, loz. salt, a good ‘Ib. of sugar, Ysoz. allspice, 1b. mustard seed, pinch cloves and mace, 20z, white peppercorns, Tie spices in muslin. Make brine of salt and water strong enough to float an (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) egg. Wash gherkins, let stand all night in brine. Drain, dry gherkins. Boil spices in vinegar 12 minutes, add gherkins, boil 2 minutes. Put gherkins into sterilised jars, pour vinegar over. Put spices away till next day. Pour vinegar off gherkins, and reboil with spices for a few minutes. Pour back boiling hot over &gherkins, and seal airtight.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 402, 7 March 1947, Page 26
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179How to Pickle Gherkins New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 402, 7 March 1947, Page 26
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