Make your own pickles?

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Originally Posted by pektel

Thanks! Is the above recipe still pretty close to what you use?

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 just plain old salad cucumbers cut thin (1/16" thickness) on a mandolin. Don't even need to peel the salad cucumbers when you cut them that thin.

Spices on pickles are pretty free form - some batches I'll add fennel, others, I've skipped the dill entirely and used cumin and fresh habanero peppers, sometimes more vinegar, sometimes I don't even bother with cucumbers and use something like tomatillos. Just have fun with it.

[pektel]

See, the fermented pickles is what I was originally looking at. In fact, this article has been brought to my attention twice recently, through a google search for "sour pickles" and just now for "fermented pickles".

http://www.wildfermentation.com/making-sour-pickles-2/

Gonna have to research this a little more too.