PER'S PUMPKIN PICKLE:
      Posted by Kursist ved AOF on September 18, 1997

      INGREDIENTS

      - 1 kg. of peeled pumpkins without seeds
      - 20 small preserved onions.
      - 3 - 4 umbels of dill
      - 3 bay leafs

      VINEGAR PICKLE:

      - 1 l. water
      - 500 ml. vinegar
      - 2 teaspoons of salt.

      SUGAR PICKLE (Ingridients:)

      - 400 gr. sugar.
      - 2 teaspoons of salt.
      - 5 dl. water.
      - 4 fresh peeled ginger.
      - juice from 1 lemon.
      - 2 teaspoons of cayenne pepper powder.
      - 2 tablespoons of mustard seeds.
      - preservin spices which is
      - 60 dried chili peppers
      - 100 gr. of yellow mustard seeds
      - 50 black pepper corns
      - 50 white pepper corns

      + preserving fluid for the pickle and the glass(es).

      HOW TO DO:

      - Peel and spilt the pumpkin, and take out the seeds with a spoon.
      - Cut the pumpkun into 15 cm's long pieces.
      - Put the pumpkin pieces into a pot.
      - Put the bay leafes on the top.
      - Bring the Vinegar-pickle to boil.
      - Pour the still boiling Vinegar-pickle over the pumpkin, - and put
      the pumpkin pot a cool place for 24 - 36 hours.
      - Take up the pumpkin-pieces and the bay leafs from the pot and dry it
      carefully with a cloth piece.
      - Cut across the pumpkin-pieces into 2 - 3 cm's pieces.
      - Cut the ginger into 1 cm.'s pieces.
      - Mix the sugar-pickle spices, including the dill umbels, small
      onions, the ginger piecces & the preserving spices.
      - Bring the sugar-pickle to boil.
      - Scum the the foam of the pickle.
      - Put in the pumpkin and let the whole thing boil until the pumpkins
      are clear.
      - Take the casserole from the warm, and put a little preserving-fluid
      to the pickle.
      - Wash the glass(es) with the preserving-fluid.
      - Put the pumpkin-pickle to the glass and cover it with close-sitting
      cover.

      - After a couple of days the pumpkin-pickle is ready to serve.
      - Very good to serve to all kinds of rice or vegetables.