[Sca-cooks] Dill pickles
Adele de Maisieres
ladyadele at paradise.net.nz
Mon Jan 29 14:01:48 PST 2007
Alexandria Doyle wrote:
>I tried looking at the flory-thing and saw some leads for cucumbers in
>general (Looks like we're adding some mint to the list so we can try the
>yogurt and mint cucumbers) but the link to picking was broken.
>
>
That's funny... I didn't have any trouble getting there.
>Anyone have some leads to the pickling? I figure we'll need to be
>purchasing seeds and such pretty soon to start our plants indoor, and wanted
>to make sure that the cucumbers, dill and mint were the only plants we
>needed to start.
>
>
>
As a matter of fact, Terese and I have a batch of this pickling in my
fridge right now.
"TO PRESERVE COWCUMBERS ALL THE YEERE. (DELIGHTES FOR LADIES, Sir Hugh
Plat, 1609)
You may take a gallon of faire water, and a pottle of veriuyce, and a
pinte of
bay salt, and a handfull of greene Fennell or Dill: boile it a little, and
when it is cold put it into a barrell, and then put your Cowcumbers into
that
pickle, and you shall keepe them all the yeere."
A pottle is 4 pints, so the ratio of verjuice to water is 1:2. When we
made this, we upped this proportion a bit and used regular sea salt and
fronds of fresh fennel liberated from a neigbour's garden. It's been in
the fridge for ten days or so, and it's quite delicious.
--
Adele de Maisieres
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