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and skimmed. Fill the tin vessels, cover them well and keep them in a cellar or
other cool place. These greens are used with great advantage for soups in the
winter season. If small cans, use 1 at a time; but if they are large, put a
layer of butter on the top, every time you have taken some.
To freshen salt cucumbers.
Common salt cucumbers which are green but have assumed a brown appearance by
being salted, may be made green again by soaking in water for a day after which
they are put in a kettle with vinegar, and placed on the fire, with some pepper,
bay leaves and ginger. Do not boil, but let it all cook on a slow fire, until
the cucumbers begin to look green. Then put them back in the jars.
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