Ripe Cucumber Pickles
| Ripe cucumbers, | 21/3 lbs. |
| Salt, | 1 tablespoon |
| Water, | 1 quart |
| Sugar, | 2 cups |
| Vinegar, | 2/3 cup |
| Whole cloves, | 1 teaspoon |
| Stick cinnamon, | 1 stick |
Adelaide washed and wiped the cucumbers, cut them in quarters lengthwise and each quarter in halves. These she weighed, then placed in an earthenware bowl and covered with a weak brine made of one quart of cold water and one tablespoon of salt.
After allowing them to stand for twelve hours, she rinsed the cucumbers thoroughly in several waters, then steamed them for twenty minutes. Putting the two-thirds of a cup of vinegar, the two cups of sugar, the teaspoon of whole cloves and the stick of cinnamon (broken in small pieces) into a saucepan, Adelaide boiled them for five minutes; adding the cucumbers she let them simmer for twenty minutes.
Removing the saucepan, she covered it and stood it away until the next day, when she lifted out the cucumbers with a silver fork and placed them in the sterilized pint jars. The syrup she boiled for five minutes, then poured at once into the jars so that it overflowed. Next she inserted the silver knife to let all air bubbles rise to the top and break, fitted on the new rubbers smoothly, sealed quickly and stood upside down out of the way of any draft.
In the morning the jars were inspected carefully to see that they did not leak, the outsides were wiped clean with a damp cloth, the labels were pasted on and then Adelaide stored the jars away in the preserve closet.