http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=236x66725Oh my.
hippywife (1000+ posts) Fri Jul-10-09 03:08 PM
MRS. ALFRED PACKER
Original message
Peekuls with peekshurs.
after which follows eight photographs showing cucumbers being converted into pickles in the Packer kitchen; I have no idea what the fifth and seventh photographs are of, though
Recipe: http://elise.com/recipes/archives/007318bread_and_butte...
Callalily (1000+ posts) Fri Jul-10-09 03:24 PM
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1. I just knew it! Before I clicked on your link, I just knew that these were bread and butter pickles. I too used to can these. They ended up to be Christmas gifts and were also sent in "care packages" to my daughter when she was in college. Mine are still her favorite bread and butter pickles.
Cheaper, easier, cleaner, and quicker, just to buy pickles at the grocery store, though.
hippywife (1000+ posts) Fri Jul-10-09 04:18 PM
MRS. ALFRED PACKER
Response to Reply #1
4. I tend to make more of those when we're getting lots of them from the garden. We love garlic dills, too, but they tend to go slower than these do.
I had a lot more cukes than the recipe called for so I was trying to adjust for the additional amount without really doing any measuring. The result was a tangy pickle that was sweet but less so than the normal sweet pickle. They were actually very good. I have lots of the brine left in a pitcher in the fridge for the next batch.
Hmmmm......hippyhubby Wild Bill must've bought his wife a new refrigerator lately.
Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Fri Jul-10-09 03:43 PM
THE SPARKLING HUSBAND PRIMITIVE, #05 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
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2. We make a salad like that almost once a week
Kirbys, onions, a little olive oil, white vinegar, salt and pepper, oregano, parsley.
hippywife (1000+ posts) Fri Jul-10-09 04:13 PM
MRS. ALFRED PACKER
Response to Reply #2
3. I have another whole crisper drawer full from just the last two days with tons more coming. We've been eating them in salads, too.
The best way to dine on cucumber is simply by yanking one off the vine and eating it like an unpeeled banana.
Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Fri Jul-10-09 04:23 PM
THE SPARKLING HUSBAND PRIMITIVE, #05 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
Response to Reply #3
5. I love Kirbys. More than even te best cuke.
kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Fri Jul-10-09 04:53 PM
Response to Reply #5
6. If you like Kirbys, you'd probably love the little Persian cukes we get here in SoCal. They are longet and thinner than Kirbys, with NO bumps/spines, very tiny seeds, thin skins, and lengthwise striations. Never bitter. Good for salads or pickles.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3081/2893436280_5a2e17f2...
Lugnut (1000+ posts) Sat Jul-11-09 01:49 AM
Response to Reply #3
7. We planted four.
In spite of the cool, rainy weather we've been having we've picked almost a dozen.
hippywife (1000+ posts) Sat Jul-11-09 07:02 AM
MRS. ALFRED PACKER
Response to Reply #7
8. Cukes are really the gardening motivator. Even if everything else fails and ya can't grow nothing else, cukes just keep coming and make you feel like you can grow anything! Damn sneaky little bastards, tho.
japple (1000+ posts) Sat Jul-11-09 09:21 AM
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9. What beautiful, bright pickles. I can almost taste them from here. And that pizza! I could have dived right into that one.
Now, I've got to go deal with a refrigerator full of cucumbers. I made bread & butter on Thursday. I think I'll make some more fresh pack dills, and maybe some relish.
Next year, I'm going to grow a different kind. The ones I have this year are long and skinny. I need to find Kirby seeds, which I couldn't find locally last year. What kind do you plant?
hippywife (1000+ posts) Sat Jul-11-09 10:42 AM
MRS. ALFRED PACKER
Response to Reply #9
10. You have me thinking about doing some spears
yours look so good! I love pickles, especially on a burger. I end up most with a dill pickle sandwich with a little patty of meat on it. For that reason, I always used to get aggravated when I ordered I burger somewhere and they brought me a spear. Cut them how you will, it's not the same and I really didn't want to fix my own sandwich, ya know? That's why I always make slices instead of spears.
These aren't actual Kirby's. Some are accidental cukes from seeds that overwintered in the compost of the salad bar scraps I bring home from work for the chickens. I just pick them when they get pickling size. The other ones that we actually did plant are a hybrid pickling cuke I ordered this year from Johnny's:
http://www.johnnyseeds.com /
Oh now, that is ridiculous.
God and nature never intended pickles to be eaten from inside hamburger buns.
Pickles are meant to be a side dish, eaten apart from the hamburger itself.
Hamburgers that have been pressed down hard on the grill, so as to squeeze out all the grease.
