Green Pickles
Origin: Tidewater Virginia
Source: Mary Randolph, 1824
Ingredients
- articles to pickle
- salt
- water
- vinegar
- turmeric
Instructions
- Put the articles you intend to pickle in a pot, and cover them with boiling salt and water.
- Put a thick cloth on the top, and then a plate that will fit it;
- let it stand till the next morning.
- Then pour off the salt and water, boil it again, and cover them as before.
- Do this until your pickles are a good green.
- Then put them in plain cold vinegar, with some turmeric in it.
- At the end of a fortnight, put them up as you do the yellow pickle.