Green Tomato Pickles

One peck of hard green tomatoes, a few small onions, if desired. Slice tomatoes in about one-half inch slices, salt well in layers, and let stand over night. In the morning drain off salt juice, place tomatoes in a porcelain kettle and cover with vinegar. Add one cupful sugar and one teaspoonful of all kinds of spices tied in small bags. Cook slowly for one hour or until tomatoes are well cooked through, but not soft

Mrs. C. F. Barker.

Small Cucumber Pickles

Make a brine of a heaping tablespoonful salt to a qt. of water, heat boiling hot and pour over cucumbers and let stand twenty-four hours; then take out and wash or rinse, and pour over them a solution of vinegar and water, half-and-half, boiling hot, with a lump of alum size of small walnut dissolved in it; let them stand until scum rises, which will be in two or three days, then rinse and wipe them from that solution. Wipe out jars, then for last vinegar use one gallon of good cider vinegar, one qt. brown sugar, one-half pt. white mustard seed, one oz. celery seed, and one oz. each of cinnamon, allspice and cloves. Use unground, put all in vinegar loose and boil a few minutes hard, then pour hot over pickles in the jar. Rave layers of horse radish between cucumbers, using plenty, as it helps to keep the pickles.

Mrs. E. F. Hawkins.

Cucumbers In Oil

Wash and slice in thick slices without paring, fifty large cucumbers. Cover with weak brine and let them stand twenty-four hours; drain, and mix with the cucumbers two table-spoonfuls whole mustard, one tablespoonful celery seed, and one cupful salad oil. Add enough cold vinegar to cover.

Mrs. H. A. Mitchell, Palo Alto.

Oil Pickles

Select small cucumbers, wash and dry them so that the black spots rub off. Then sprinkle with plenty of salt and set the dish so that the water will drain. Let stand all night. Take small onions, one-fourth as many as cucumbers, and put these in another dish and then drain all night, after being sprinkled with plenty of salt. In the morning mix all together with mustard seed, celery seed and the best vinegar and olive oil. Use about three table-spoonfuls of oil to a two qt. jar.

Mrs. P. N. Noble. Pacific Grove.