{"id":2971,"date":"2010-06-12T14:41:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T19:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/?p=2971"},"modified":"2010-06-18T16:53:53","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T21:53:53","slug":"pickles-first-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/food\/pickles-first-of-the-season","title":{"rendered":"Pickles &#8211; First of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 185px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webliminal.com\/images\/sidepics\/sp235.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"pickles\" src=\"http:\/\/webliminal.com\/images\/sidepics\/cwdata\/sp235.jpg\" alt=\"pickles\" width=\"175\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pickles - in the jar June 12, 2010<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had a great crop of cucumbers so far this year. All from 8 plants, four pickling type and four English cucumbers, bought at Doug&#8217;s Grocery in White Oak at the corner of Ringold and Brooke Roads. We&#8217;ve been eating cucumber salad all week and\u00c2\u00a0 I started some cucumbers for pickling yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll taste the results in a few days. I put together a couple of different recipes for this, so we&#8217;ll see how that turns out.<\/p>\n<p>The recipes were taken from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0452296226?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=webliminalbooksi&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0452296226\">Putting Food By<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=webliminalbooksi&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0452296226\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1580089585?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=webliminalbooksi&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1580089585\">Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It: And Other Cooking Projects<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=webliminalbooksi&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1580089585\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>Picked the cucumbers yesterday and did a short brine for about 24 hours. (Following directions from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0452296226?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=webliminalbooksi&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0452296226\">Putting  Food By )<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=webliminalbooksi&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0452296226\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clean the cucumbers<\/li>\n<li>Put them in a crock with\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 one gallon of water and 3\/4 cup of kosher salt for the brine.<\/li>\n<li>Keep the cucumbers submerged with a plate and let them brine over night.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today I put 3 quart jars in a a big pot, submerged them, and heated the water until it boiled. Then to each jar I added (sort of following directions in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1580089585?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=webliminalbooksi&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1580089585\">Jam  It, Pickle It, Cure It: And Other Cooking Projects<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=webliminalbooksi&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1580089585\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two dill sprigs<\/li>\n<li>Two dill seed heads<\/li>\n<li>Two tablespoons of Penzey&#8217;s pickling spice<\/li>\n<li>Two tablespoons of kosher salt<\/li>\n<li>Four cloves of garlic, crushed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then I added vinegar until the jars were half full and then added water the rest of the way.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had a great crop of cucumbers so far this year. 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