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Youngjin Hong
To preserve cucumbers
Take large long cucumbers that is green and free from seeds and some little ones to mix with them. Put them into salt and water in a warm place, and when they are yellow, green them in salt and water as you do for pickling over the fire. Keep them crisp as you can. When you have greened them, cut the large ones long like cittern and if there be any seeded part within, take it out, put them in fresh water. Change the water twice a day for two or three days till the saltiness be gone out of them. You may prick the small one. Take the roughness off with a cloth of part of them. Then have a syrup ready boiled with rind of a lemon or orange as gives it a flavors to your taste, and four or five races of gingers and two nutmeg. Let your syrup be quite cold when you ? your cucumbers boil the syrup every two or three days at the first(?). While the water be got out of them, add more sugar to make the syrup pretty thick for keeping. If you put them in a syrup too thick at the first, they are apt to ?.

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Youngjin Hong To preserve cucumbers Take large long cucumbers that is green and free from seeds and some little ones to mix with them. Put them into salt and water in a warm place, and when they are yellow, green them in salt and water as you do for pickling over the fire. Keep them crisp as you can. When you have greened them, cut the large ones long like cittern and if there be any seeded part within, take it out, put them in fresh water. Change the water twice a day for two or three days till the saltiness be gone out of them. You may prick the small one. Take the roughness off with a cloth of part of them. Then have a syrup ready boiled with rind of a lemon or orange as gives it a flavors to your taste, and four or five races of gingers and two nutmeg. Let your syrup be quite cold when you ? your cucumbers boil the syrup every two or three days at the first(?). While the water be got out of them, add more sugar to make the syrup pretty thick for keeping. If you put them in a syrup too thick at the first, they are apt to ?.