Natural magick by John Baptista Porta, a Neapolitane ; in twenty books ... wherein are set forth all the riches and delights of the natural sciences.
Porta, Giambattista della, 1535?-1615.

Cucumbers may be preserved in vineger;

and that very fresh and in their natural strength, if you hang them up in a vessel that hath some vineger in it, that they may not touch the vineger, and then close up the vessel fast, that the air may not pass into it; for by this means you may have green and new Cucumbers in the Winter-time. So all other fruits may be preser∣ved Page  134 in vineger: but because vineger doth mar the taste of them, therefore we will not speak of such preservings. But hereby we have learned to preserve, time out of mind,