Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers

Cucumber Catsup

Take full grown cucumbers, pare them, and cut out the lines of white pith, which are on three sides; cut them in slices about half an inch thick; to six cucumbers, put one onion, sliced fine; then sprinkle them with salt, placing the fruit in layers, with salt between;—next morning, press the liquor from them; put them in small jars, and fill up with strong vinegar, seasoned with pepper, mustard seed, and salt, if necessary. The small jars are recommended—as the cucumbers do not keep well after they have been exposed to the air.