[Sca-cooks] Re:Lots of pickles

[johnna holloway]

Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery
has two recipes for "cowcumber" pickles on
pages 168-169. Earlier in the text
the editor Karen Hess also provides more
on pickles and cucumbers in general on pages
165-167.

Johnna Holloway  Johnnae llyn Lewis

> >Anne said:
> >>  And last summer I made "summer pickles" i.e. fermented
> >>  pickles, in a crock, for the first time. Very good!
Also sprach Stefan li Rous:
> > I don't remember anyone
> >mentioning fermented cucumbers before. More details, please. And
> >does anyone know if these would be period?
Philip & Susan Troy wrote:
> There are a fair number of 17th-century cucumber pickle recipes, I
> believe. It seems reasonably likely they would have been done prior
> to that. And then there's the German recipe in (I think) Ein Buoch
> Von Guter Spise that uses something very much like the
> wine/vinegar/honey/mustard pickle found in the 14th century English
> compost recipes, as, effectively, a salad dressing/pickle for
> cucumbers or, I think, beets. At least I think it mentions
> cucumbers...> Adamantius