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      Title: Boiled Cucumber Pickle
 Categories: Pickles
      Yield: 1 Batch
 
     75    Fresh cucumbers
           - (eating size)
           Brine
           Vinegar
           Celery seed
           Onion; fine chopped
      8 lb Brown sugar; per large jar

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           Allspice
           Cloves
           Mace
           Nutmeg
           Whole black pepper
 
  Take fresh cucumbers (size for eating), put them in brine for a few
  days; take them out, and put them in vinegar to soak for 2 days. Then
  wipe them dry, cut them in pieces 1" thick. Make a seasoning of a
  mixture of allspice, cloves, mace, nutmeg, and whole black pepper,
  about 2 oz to 75 cucumbers. Add celery-seed, and onion chopped fine.
  
  Take a large stone jar, put a layer of cucumber and a layer of the
  mixture, with plenty of brown sugar (about eight pounds to a large
  jar). In this way fill the jar, then cover it with strong vinegar:
  tie the mouth up securely, put the jar in a pot of cold water, and
  boil until the cucumber is tender, and they will be ready for use in
  a few days.
  
  Recipe by Mrs. C. C. McP. via M.C. Tyree, Housekeeping in Old Virginia
 
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