Pickled Walnuts
E. Raper, The Receipt book of Elizabeth Raper 1770 (London: The Nonesuch Press, 1924)
Home Studies Collection, Manchester Metropolitan University Special Collections
They may be eaten at the twelve-month end, but are better for standing two years.
Black pepper, ginger, mustard seed, salt and garlic, put in a jar: put in your walnuts just as they are picked from the tree and cover them with cold vinegar, tie them down with a bladder, and leather over that, they may be eaten at the twelve-month end, but are better for standing two years. If you boil up your vinegar four or five times and pour it on boiling hot each time, you may eat your walnuts in six months.