Refrigerator pickles

[Blues Heron]

Anybody make these? I did some cauliflower last summer, just finished off the jar the other day. Very good! So I made a jar of sugar snap peas a couple of days ago. Here's what I did:

mixed

1 cup white vinegar
2 cups water
1 rounded Tb kosher salt

in quart jar put

3 garlic cloves
2 slices beet
couple of pinches tarragon
about a pound of sugar snap peas

cover with vinegar solution

refrigerate

Did not parboil the peas like I did the cauliflower - wonder if I should have?

[Warpy]

1. Parboiling sets the color

and kills any nasties that might be living on their skins.

However, the vinegar will make sure those nasties don't breed in the fridge.

My favorite variation of fridge pickles is cucumbers in sour cream:

Peel and seed cukes, roughly chop and put into a colander. Salt them with either sea or Kosher salt and ignore them for half an hour while you mix sour cream, minced or pressed garlic, snipped dill and black pepper.

After half an hour, put the cukes into a dishtowel and wring all the salty water out. Mix the cukes with the sour cream mixture and refrigerate overnight.

I especially like this one in February, it tastes like summer.

[Tab]

2. No, but I'm gearing up for a pickle experiment

I've been slowly checking out various prep techniques. I love pickles, so I've been starting to collect information on how to make pickles without killing myself in the process.

[hippywife]

3. The first few pickles

we got out of the garden, I sliced up and put in a jar of juice from store bought dill pickles but after that I canned them:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=246&topic_id=9714

As you can probably tell, half are dills and half are sweet slices. They are all yummy. I love pickles, especially dills on a burger. Most of the time I will eat them with nothing but lots of dill pickles, kind of a pickle sandwich with a little bit of meat. LOL

[grasswire]

5. I'm so nuts about dill...

...that I not only eat a lot of pickles on a burger or tuna sandwich, but also sprinkle dried dill weed on the mayo, on the bun.

[hippywife]

6. You are pretty dilly silly! LOL

Before I moved down here, I told my other half this about myself. He couldn't wait to take me to a local restaurant chain here called Goldies because they have a pickle bar. Nothing fancy, mind you, just dill slices, sweet slices, and dill spears. But you can munch on a bowl of pickles while waiting for your meal and then smoosh a whole mess of 'em on your burger when it arrives. Haven't eaten there in years but it was an okay place. Their burgers were a little on the dry side for my taste.

[grasswire]

7. good idea....pickle bar! (eom)

[Callalily]

4. Yes, I used to make

refrigerator pickles all the time (as well as canned), ummmm . . . but I used cucumbers, not snap peas.

Oh . . . used to do some fabulous carrots too.