An Excellent Way of Preserving Cucumbers

Ingredients

• Salt and water
• 1 lb lump sugar
• the rind of 1 lemon
• 1 oz ginger
• cucumbers

Instructions

1. Choose the greenest cucumbers, and those that are most free from seeds;
2. put them in strong salt and water, with a cabbage-leaf to keep them down;
3. tie a paper over them, and put them in a warm place till they are yellow;
4. then wash them and set them over the fire in fresh water, with a very little salt, and another cabbage-leaf over them;
5. cover very closely, but take care they do not boil.
6. If they are not a fine green, change the water again, cover them as before, and make them hot.
7. When they are a good colour, take them off the fire and let them cool;
8. cut them in quarters, take out the seeds and pulp, and put them into cold water.
9. Let them remain for 2 days, changing the water twice each day, to draw out the salt.
10. Put the sugar, with 1/4 pint of water, in a saucepan over the fire;
11. remove the scum as it rises, and add the lemon-peel and ginger with the outside scraped off;
12. when the syrup is tolerably thick, take it off the fire, and when _cold_, wipe the cucumbers _dry_, and put them in.
13. Boil the syrup once in 2 or 3 days for 3 weeks; strengthen it if required, and let it be quite cold before the cucumbers are put in.
14. Great attention must be paid to the directions in the commencement of this recipe, as, if these are not properly carried out, the result will be far from satisfactory.