Petits Melons confits (Small Pickled Melons)

Ingredients

• small melons
• salt
• vinegar cut with one third of water
• the aromatics used for the gherkins
• vinegar

Instructions

1. Take the small melons at the moment of, or a little time after, the falling of the flower.
2. Degorge them in salt for 10 to 12 hours.
3. Wash them with vinegar cut with one third of water.
4. Put them into jars with the aromatics used for the gherkins.
5. Cover with cold or hot vinegar — hot if you wish to keep them quite green.
6. They may be used at the end of 7 or 8 days.