Forum: Good Eats
11-02-2012, 05:36 PM
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Re: Make your own pickles?
Vinegar brine & spices you can reuse a few times, I'll reuse until it clouds - about 3 runs, could probably go more cycles though. I add a splash of fresh vinegar and a bit more salt each time and...
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Forum: Good Eats
08-21-2012, 04:10 PM
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Re: Make your own pickles?
Unlike fermented pickles which will continue to get more sour as they sit in the fermenter because the live lactobacillus will continue to make the brine more sour, vinegar pickles typically won't...
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Forum: Good Eats
08-20-2012, 07:07 PM
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Forum: Good Eats
08-20-2012, 01:48 PM
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Re: Make your own pickles?
Peter, I used the blue box Morton's kosher salt for years with refrigerator/vinegar pickles, and all really I experienced was some sediment and clouding of the brine from the anti-caking agent, while...
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Forum: Good Eats
08-20-2012, 12:42 PM
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Replies: 63
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Re: Make your own pickles?
That's the blue box Morton's kosher salt, right? I think it has an anti-caking agent in it.
If you are going to wall-mart, just grab a box of the Morton's canning and pickling salt it has no...
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Forum: Good Eats
08-20-2012, 12:18 PM
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Replies: 63
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Re: Make your own pickles?
There are many different fermented recipes out there.
Few recommendations:
1) use a scale for the salt as 6TBS of some salt, say kosher salt, is not the same as 6TBS of pickling & canning salt. ...
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Forum: Good Eats
08-20-2012, 11:52 AM
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Replies: 63
Views: 18,159
Re: Make your own pickles?
I'm doing more with fermented pickles these days, but yeah, that recipe still works. Rachel Ray has a good "quick pickle" recipe too, in which she calls for Persian cucumbers, but I'll use it with...
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Forum: Good Eats
08-20-2012, 11:32 AM
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Forum: Good Eats
10-01-2009, 11:19 PM
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Re: Make your own pickles?
I've used that recipe before, it is good.
I grew bored with the cooked peppers and the oil, so I went searching for somethng that would have pepper with some snap to it, not unlike a pickle, and...
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Forum: Good Eats
09-30-2009, 11:30 PM
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Re: Make your own pickles?
Totally forgot about this thread. Thanks for topping it gvarsity.
I'm still tweaking the recipie, but this is my latest recipie though.
Use smaller cucumbers, in the larger ones the seeds are...
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Forum: Good Eats
07-29-2009, 10:38 AM
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Replies: 63
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Re: Make your own pickles?
Regular & dark green.
Could have just been the grower too - some of his produce is a bit odd (like his radishes, they're the size of racquetballs) at times. But the price was good, $3 for enough...
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Forum: Good Eats
07-29-2009, 07:49 AM
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Replies: 63
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Re: Make your own pickles?
That might not be bad, if it was possible to bite though the rind on the ones I bought - some of them are like shoe leather.
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Forum: Good Eats
07-29-2009, 12:28 AM
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Replies: 63
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Re: Make your own pickles?
That's exactly what happens to them. I made two one gallon jars of "regular" cucumber pickle slices a month or so ago when I couldn't get pickling cucumbers at the farmers market here. On the...
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