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Rolled Cucumbers

8 servings

Ingredients

• 2 kg small snake cucumbers
• 0.5 l wine vinegar
• 500 g sugar
• 3 g cloves
• 3 g cinnamon
• 1.5 g mace
• beer vinegar (for pre-cooking) (as needed)

Instructions

1. Wash small snake cucumbers thoroughly, cut them crosswise lengthwise without peeling, remove the seeds, and after weighing them, par-boil them in beer vinegar until half-soft.
2. Boil the wine vinegar with the sugar.
3. Roll up the cucumbers, pierce them with the specified spices to hold the rolls together, place them in a stoneware pot, and pour the boiling vinegar over them; they must be completely covered.
4. After 2-3 weeks, reduce the vinegar strongly once more and pour it lukewarm over the cucumbers.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.