To pickle Purslane to keep all the year

PERIOD: England, 17th century | SOURCE: The Cooks Guide: Or, Rare Receipts for Cookery, 1654 | CLASS: Authentic

DESCRIPTION: How to pickle purslane

To pickle Purslane to keep all the year.

Take the biggest stalks picked clean, then strew bay-sale first into your pot, and then the stalks of Purslane, and then salt again, so do til your pot be full, then tye it up close and keep it cool.