To pickle Cucumbers

Ingredients

• cucumbers
• salt
• white wine vinegar
• cloves
• mace
• nutmeg
• white pepper corns
• long pepper
• ginger
• vine leaves
• salt

Instructions

1. Choose small, fresh, unblemished cucumbers.
2. Make a salt-and-water pickle strong enough to bear an egg, boil and skim it, then pour it over the cucumbers and stive them down for twenty-four hours.
3. Strain the cucumbers into a colander and dry them well with a cloth.
4. Boil up the best white wine vinegar with cloves, diced mace, nutmeg, white peppercorns, long pepper, and races of ginger.
5. Put in the cucumbers with a few vine leaves and a little salt.
6. As soon as they begin to turn colour, put them into jars and stive them down close.
7. When cold, tie on a bladder and leather.