Alum Recipes

Recipes Featuring Alum

• Alum Yeast
  1 pint flour 1 tsp powdered alum 1 tsp salt 1 Tbsp sugar 2 ounces yeast Meal Crumbs
• Sweet Cucumber Pickles
  Cucumbers 1 gallon of cucumbers 1 pint of salt Vinegar 1 gallon of good cider vinegar 2 ounces of stick cinnamon 1 ounce of (whole) black pepper 1 ounce of celery seed 1/2 ounce of (whole) clo
• Crab Apple Preserves
  Crab apples, peeled & cored Alum Sugar
• Shakers' Pickles
  Half-grown cucumbers Salt Alum Vinegar Spices
• Tomatoes
  Tomatoes Cloves Allspice Ground pepper 1 large tablespoonful of salt Mustard 12 onions Horseradish Alum Pickling vinegar
• Green Pickle | Cucumbers, snaps, etc
  Cucumbers, snaps, etc Brine Grape leaves Weak vinegar 2 tsps powdered alum Cider vinegar Seasoning: 2 ounces mace 1/2 lb ginger, scalded & sliced 2 ounces cloves 2 ounces cinnamon 2 ounce
• Sweet Cucumber Pickle
  4 lbs cucumbers, sliced Brine Salt Alum Ginger tea 1 quart cider vinegar 1 pint water 3 lbs sugar Mace Cinnamon Cloves Celery seed Ginger, sliced
• To Green Mangoes
  Mangoes Brine Grape vine leaves Alum
• Ripe Muskmelon Pickles
  Melons Salt Alum 1 gallon vinegar Cinnamon Cloves 3-4 lbs sugar
• Pickled Green Peppers
  2 dozen large green bell peppers Salt Vinegar Small piece of alum 2 heads white cabbage, finely chopped Salt 1 cup white mustard seed Spiced vinegar (see Spiced Vinegar recipe)