[Sca-cooks] pickling

[Ian Kusz]

Oh, and remember, not all pickles are cucumbers.  Got a recipe here for
gillyflowers, pennyroyal or cowslips or broom flowers, not to mention
chibols(?), radishes, carrots, turnips, scallions, skirrets (?)

On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Ian Kusz <sprucebranch at gmail.com> wrote:

> waxed or unwaxed barrels?  and would  they be toasted, like some wine
> barrels?
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 4:25 PM, David Walddon <david at vastrepast.com>wrote:
>
>> Tried to send again but still to big.
>> Eduardo
>>
>> On Jul 15, 2012, at 4:15 PM, David Walddon wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > I goes on and covers almost a full page.
>> > Besides Fuchs Gerard and other herbals will be helpful and a quick
>> search on LEME (mentioned today in a previous message) gives you tons of
>> useful information.
>> > I posted some of the recipes from PPC 95 for cucumbers but the system
>> said the message was too big and is waiting for approval (probably the
>> insertion of the excel table. I will go back and try to get the size down.
>> > Eduardo
>> >
>> > On Jul 15, 2012, at 3:58 PM, Terry Decker wrote:
>> >
>> >> Depending on how long you planned to store them, a stoneware crock or
>> a barrel would be the appropriate choices.
>> >>
>> >> As for the types of cucumbers, check the Florilegium
>> http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-VEGETABLES/Cucumbers-Hst-art.htmland for drawings check out Fuchs Herbal pg 401 at
>> http://www.med.yale.edu/library/historical-old/fuchs/400-1.gif for
>> Cucumis sativus vulgaris (looks like a plain ole warty cucumber to me).
>> >>
>> >> There are a few more things labelled Cucumis on the following pages
>> but they are melons, New World squash, etc. with the exception of Cucumis
>> sylvestris (wild cucumber) which may be your Egyptian hairy cucumber.
>> >>
>> >> Bear
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> what container would pickling have been done in?  and for a period
>> recipe,
>> >>> should I use kirbys, or regular?  I figure it's not the egyptian hairy
>> >>> (cucumis chate).  Might it be the "burpless" English ones I see
>> sometimes
>> >>> in stores?
>> >>>
>> >>> --
>> >>> Ian of Oertha
>> >>
>> >> ___________
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> Ian of Oertha
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