To Pickle Gherkins

• Brine to pour on gherkins: —6 oz. salt to each quart water: 24 hours.
• Pickle:—to each quart vinegar<

Let the gherkins be gathered on a dry day, before the frost has touched them; take off the blossoms, put them into a stone jar, and pour over them sufficient boiling brine to cover them well. The following day take them out, wipe them singly, lay them into a clean stone jar, with a dozen bay leaves over them, and pour upon them t