Cucumber Catsup, No. 1

Pare your cucumbers closely and grate them. Season to your taste with salt, pepper, and vinegar. Mix and put in bottles, which without corking you will place in a vessel of cold water and set on the stove, letting the water boil for two or three hours, until the catsup is done.

Cucumber Catsup, No. 2

Three dozen full-grown cucumbers, one dozen onions; cut the cucumbers and onions in small pieces, sprinkle them with salt, and let them stand twenty-four hours. Then drain off the water, put to them mace, cloves, and cayenne pepper. Cover them with cold vinegar, and pour over a little sweet oil to exclude the air.

Cucumber Pickles

Wash and wipe two hundred cucumbers, place them in stone jars. Make a pickle that will bear an egg, boil it, and pour boiling hot over the cucumbers, and some peppers. Cover the jars with a double cloth, plate, and weight, and let them remain twenty-four hours. Then take them out, and wipe them dry. After drying the jars return the pickles to them. Boil the vinegar with whatever spices you like, mustard seed, cloves of garlic, one pound brown sugar, and pour boiling hot over the pickles. The sugar strengthens the vinegar, without leaving a sweet taste on the pickles.

Cucumber Pickles (Quickly Made)

Wash and drain the cucumbers, then place them in your jar, with a large onion stuck with cloves. Cover them with strong scalding brine, and let them stand twenty-four hours; then pour it off, and take sufficient vinegar to fill the jar, put it in your preserving kettle with a small lump of alum, a teacup of white mustard seed, one tablespoonful of cloves, one of allspice, two of black pepper, put it over the fire, and let it boil a few minutes, then pour it over the cucumbers while scalding hot. Tie them up immediately.

Cucumber Sauce

Three dozen cucumbers, eight large onions chopped fine, and add one cup and a half of salt. Place in a colander to drain eight hours, then add half cup of black pepper, half pound of white mustard seed, and three pints of vinegar. Mix well together, bottle for use. The size of the cucumbers regulates somewhat the quantity of vinegar; medium size preferred.