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| Yes!!!! Another "this one is IT" recipe!!! For the past few years, I've just been doing Mrs. Wages Bread n Butter. We all liked it, kids ate it, I love it, move onto other projects. However, earlier this year, with a surprising excess of cucumbers (many gardens failed badly in the drought), I decided to play with a few different recipes. I did one batch of everything that interested me in the Ball book. No dill pickles, though, no one eats them here, and wasnt able to do gherkins because the cucumber plants croaked in the garden while gathering tiny cucumbers.
These cucumber sandwich pickles are just what I remember as a child at my grandmothers house! Correct me if I'm wrong, but they seem to be part sweet pickle and part bread n butter. But yet, it isnt the sweetness that gets my attention. Im not quite sure what is different, perhaps the brown sugar regular than white?? My search is over for the "best" pickles! :) Its days like these that I go to bed proud. And can close my eyes, eat a pickle, and drift back to my childhood. The sights, the sounds, the smells, the food....... |
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| Ellen, I love your post. Now tell me. Are they sweet and sour? Did you use pickle crisp or some facsimile? I ferment alot of pickles, but truth is, they don't hold very well in the frig. They become soft after a month or so, even though I pick them young, early, and bring them straight into the house to ferment. So, even though I won't get the probiotic effect with canning, I've been looking for a good pickle. Deborah |
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- Posted by ellen_inmo 6 (My Page) on Wed, Sep 5, 12 at 21:10
| Deborah, to me they are like "inbetween" a sweet and a bread n butter. Almost like a "light" bread n butter. The difference in them than all others simply must be the brown sugar, as I can't really distinguish much in the others I have done. As far as fermenting, I just followed the Ball book directions to the T. As with other recipes that take a long time for "de salting", this recipe only has a standing time of about three hours. These can be made in one day. I can't stop eating them! I'm not a particular pickle eater, as some I know are very picky and want them just right. So this one caught me off guard by being "just right" for connecting with a childhood memory. |
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