Pickles--Cook-Off 32

[Shelby]

Very nice, Chris!  I'd love to hear your pickled egg recipe.  I have some eggs to use up, too and my husband loves pickled eggs.

[HungryChris]

Shelby,

I just put three smashed cloves of garlic, 1 Tsp of dill weed, 1 Tbs kosher salt, a Tsp of crushed red pepper in a quart jar and pack in the peeled hard boiled eggs. I fill the jar to the shoulder with distilled vinegar, top off with water, screw on the lid, shake to dissolve the salt and refrigerate for three days. Nothing fancy, but quite passable. 

 

HC

[scubadoo97]

Purchased a watermelon the other day. Nothing to write home about which seems to be the norm these days. The best part was the rind. It made a dandy pickle.

Used a David Chang recipe. Very simple and tasty

[Anna N]

Was given some young ginger so I promptly pickled it. It will be refrigerated so don't fret about the plastic lid.

[Smithy]

Here is the recipe for the Quickles It makes roughly one quart jar.  Easily doubled or tripled or quadrupled or.....well, you catch my drift. You can either slice the cucumbers length-wise or in rounds.  I prefer rounds because I think they pickle quicker, but that could just be in my head

 

2 mason jars and a lid and screw band

4-5 pickling cucumbers or heck regular cukes that are smallish in size work well too--I used both I think

3-4 peeled garlic cloves, sliced in halves

Fresh dill --I put a lot in...like 10 or so sprigs

1 TB pickling spice

3-4 whole dried red chili peppers

1TB sugar

1 1/2 TB pickling salt

2/3 cup white vinegar (I've also used cider with no problem--I actually kind of prefer it)

1 cup water

 

In a mason jar combine pickling spice, salt, sugar and vinegar.  Put the lid on and shake well.  Add the water. In the other mason jar pack the dill, cukes, garlic and chili peppers in.  I like to layer them so the dill is on the bottom and then some throughout.  Pour the brine over and screw the lid on tight.  Place it in the fridge and try to stay out of it for a week.  I've kept mine for a year in there with no problems.

I finally got around to doing this today. It really is easy. The last jar I did contains a pepper and some zuke as well as cukes. Thanks for posting this recipe, Shelby!