Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1870 — Pickles in Salt. [ARTICLE]

Pickles in Salt.

The season having returned when it is desirable for the farmer’s family to lay in store their annual supply of cucumbers for pickles, inquiry is made, “How shall I lay them down and preserve them in salt? I have put them down in clear salt and can’t keep them so; they rise?’ The trouble is owing, in all probability, to the neglect of complying with one small item essential to their preservation. I will again repeat directions which I have proved successful in preserving cucumbers from year to year, and for several years, quite sound and good. Procure a suitable cask—it may be of oak, pine, ash or other wood, provided it be clean and will hold brine—and good coarse salt that will preserve meat, and you have the essentials for preserving. Put the ca«k in the cellar, as you would your pork barrel. Gather your pickles from day to day; cut them from the vines with half an inch of stem, all sound and fresh; cleanse them from all dirt, etc., sprinkle ia the Wtoq of the cask a l:slf

inch of mH, tumble in your pick lee three or four inches deep, end put on nit m you would in waiting pork; fill it thus till the cask is full, or the desired quantity is stored—ycu can lay them in as you gather, them, once, twice, thrice, or more tunes a week, only they should be freshed pickled. If any on top soften, pick and throw them put. . In a few days brine will form sufficient to cover the pickles; now comes the one essential so often neglected; procure a board to fit, or nearly so, the inside of the cask, and use it from the first putting in of the pickles ; place it, with a stone or brick on it, on top of the pickles, to keep them under the brine, and there is no possible danger of their spoiling or injuring ; a few on the top may soften, perhaps half a dozen or so; tnese should be thrown out when occasion calls to use the pickles. Our people have kept cucumbers in this way, sound and gooc|, three or four years; when we use them they are taken up, rinsed, scalded and soaked several days, to freshen before having vinegar put to them. The foregoing is the best way of preserving pickles, Where they are to be kept over winter: a not very strong brine to put them in will preserve them for a few months, and they are often thus put down when to be marketed within two or three months.— IF. IL White, in Country Gentleman. John V. Farwell & Co., wholesale dry (roods mcrclipnts, are the best representatives of the irrepressible energy and enterprise of Chicago business men. Two days after the great fire which destroyed their "magnificent store, with ?1,500,000 worth of goods, they were In Jiew quarters, at 72 and 74 Wabash Avenue, occupying six floors, 48 by 165 feet, to which they have added a packing room 50 by 160 feet, and the first week their sales were $200,000. Their neW loss proved to be less that $200,000, and as they had a largo duplicate .stock in warehouse,"and-Uusir-ordiwa by telegraph were filled at once and forwarded by express, they arc fully prepared to meet the largest demands of the fall trade. The elasticity and celerity with which thev have sprung into full working order, on so gigantic a scale, after such a great calamity, is without a parallel in mercantile circles.

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