We recently watched an old DVR'd episode of Good Eats and learned that the average American eats 9lbs of pickles annually.
This family is clearly NOT average.
I would guess we eat more like 12-15lbs/person annually. Well, Bryce licks 12-15 lbs, the rest of us eat them. Heck, it might even be more than that--I buy us a LOT of pickles.
And now, we're making our own!
Today, we're starting out with refrigerator pickles, with a recipe that claims that the pickles come out "just like Claussen". We'll see. We used the 5 cukes from our garden first & cut them as spears. The produce market cukes were cut into sandwich slices & spears.
Next-we'll try our hand at REAL fermented dills. 
How did they turn out? I'm curious, because we love dill pickles over here too. We have been getting cukes every week in our box from the farmer's market. do you have to have a special kind of cuke to make pickles???
ReplyDeleteThey were YUMMY and they are almost gone!!!! You can use almost anything when making pickles (seriously, like onions or garlic or cauliflower!) But most people use pickling cucumbers to make pickles. They are the 4" cukes you see at Randazzo's for like .39/lb. These are used because of their size and they have a thinner skin so they pickle better. I'll send you a recipe for refrigerator dills. Those are easy-peasy.
ReplyDeleteand hey---"box from the farmer's market"...did you get a CSA share???
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