cucumbers/dill pickles

MJ said:

I was wondering if anyone had a good dill pickle recipe using normal size
cucumbers..All the recipes i find are for small pickling cukes. I have

alot

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of cucumbers left from the garden and would like to pickle them up..i have
made some into sweet refridgerator pickles but i would like some dill. Any
suggestions would be great.

If I had a surfeit of cukes I'd consider making a relish of some sort or
another, there are many recipes...

--
Best
Greg

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Quoted message said:

I was wondering if anyone had a good dill pickle recipe using normal size
cucumbers..All the recipes i find are for small pickling cukes. I have alot
of cucumbers left from the garden and would like to pickle them up..i have
made some into sweet refridgerator pickles but i would like some dill. Any
suggestions would be great.
Thanks
MJ

You are not going to get the best results.

Look here:

http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/5000/5342.html

Dimitri

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MJ said:

I was wondering if anyone had a good dill pickle recipe using normal size
cucumbers..All the recipes i find are for small pickling cukes. I have alot
of cucumbers left from the garden and would like to pickle them up..i have
made some into sweet refridgerator pickles but i would like some dill. Any
suggestions would be great.

Use any of the recipes you already have. You'll get close results. The
difference will be that your pickles are not quite as firm. Pickling
cucumbers are a bit more dense than regular cucumbers.

In article <[email hidden]>,
"Gregory Morrow"

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MJ said:

I was wondering if anyone had a good dill pickle recipe using normal size
cucumbers..All the recipes i find are for small pickling cukes. I have

alot

Quoted message said:

of cucumbers left from the garden and would like to pickle them up..i have
made some into sweet refridgerator pickles but i would like some dill. Any
suggestions would be great.

If I had a surfeit of cukes I'd consider making a relish of some sort or
another, there are many recipes...

Actually, cucumber salad work work nicely. Google for "cucumber salad
recipes" and the OP will find lots of appealing recipes.

You might try asking someone on rec.food.preserving. I have a recipe, but I
left the garlic out because I didn't like the taste. They also turn out
very salty. Send me your e-mail address and I will forward it to you.

Dwayne

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Quoted message said:

I was wondering if anyone had a good dill pickle recipe using normal size
cucumbers..All the recipes i find are for small pickling cukes. I have
alot
of cucumbers left from the garden and would like to pickle them up..i have
made some into sweet refridgerator pickles but i would like some dill. Any
suggestions would be great.
Thanks
MJ

MJ said:

I was wondering if anyone had a good dill pickle recipe using normal size
cucumbers..All the recipes i find are for small pickling cukes. I have alot
of cucumbers left from the garden and would like to pickle them up..i have
made some into sweet refridgerator pickles but i would like some dill. Any
suggestions would be great.

You can use any cukes so long as they're not waxed, were picked that
day, and not so large that they've gone to seed. Naturally next year
you will plant some pickling cukes, like kirbys, which also are
excellent for salads. To find great recipes search the net for
<fermented pickles>. The only other suggestion I have is to never ever
again write "alot", it's not a word... makes you appear dumber than a
pile of [censored].

Sheldon

Dimitri said:

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Quoted message said:

I was wondering if anyone had a good dill pickle recipe using normal size
cucumbers..All the recipes i find are for small pickling cukes. I have alot
of cucumbers left from the garden and would like to pickle them up..i have
made some into sweet refridgerator pickles but i would like some dill. Any
suggestions would be great.
Thanks
MJ

You are not going to get the best results.

Look here:

http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/5000/5342.html

Dimitri

Larger cucumbers can be made into relish.

Stan Horwitz said:

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"Gregory Morrow"

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MJ said:

I was wondering if anyone had a good dill pickle recipe using normal

size

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

cucumbers..All the recipes i find are for small pickling cukes. I have

alot

Quoted message said:

of cucumbers left from the garden and would like to pickle them up..i

have

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

made some into sweet refridgerator pickles but i would like some dill.

Any

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suggestions would be great.

If I had a surfeit of cukes I'd consider making a relish of some sort

or

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another, there are many recipes...

Actually, cucumber salad work work nicely. Google for "cucumber salad
recipes" and the OP will find lots of appealing recipes.

I made a big Thai peanut noodle salad last weekend, I used LOTS of cukes in
it. I peeled them, cut the cukes in half length - wise, scooped out the
seeds with a spoon and then cut into small chunks. I salted them heavily
and put them in a colander in a sunny window for several hours so as to
drain off excess moisture...

The cool 'n salty cuke slices contrasted nicely with the spiciness of some
of the other ingredients...

A whiles back I also tried lightly stir - frying cukes in a chicken stir -
fry (it's just chunks of chicken breast done with whatever veg I have on
hand). Worked great, I also threw in some chunks of iceberg lettuce to cook
very lightly. This can be served hot or cold, it's a nice cool summer- y
dish...I used soy sauce, garnished with sesame seeds so it's vaguely
"Oriental"...

BTW Stanley 30 years ago when I worked summers in a Heinz plant in Iowa
pickle relish was one of the major products...all the cukes, etc. used are
grown locally (at least in summer). Ketchup too, huge tomato - laden trucks
trundled in night and day to feed the production line...

OH! This week my local Treasure Island soopermart here in Chicawgo has
Heinz ketchup for $.79/bottle. This is the cheapest I've seen it some time,
I bought a lot so I'll be stocked for the winter. You can NEVER have too
much ketchup stocked away ;-)

--
Best
Greg

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"Gregory Morrow"

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OH! This week my local Treasure Island soopermart here in Chicawgo has
Heinz ketchup for $.79/bottle. This is the cheapest I've seen it some time,
I bought a lot so I'll be stocked for the winter. You can NEVER have too
much ketchup stocked away ;-)

Hah! I couldn't agree more, but that's hardly a news flash! 🙂

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In article <[email hidden]>,
"Gregory Morrow"

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OH! This week my local Treasure Island soopermart here in Chicawgo has
Heinz ketchup for $.79/bottle. This is the cheapest I've seen it some
time,
I bought a lot so I'll be stocked for the winter. You can NEVER have too
much ketchup stocked away ;-)

Hah! I couldn't agree more, but that's hardly a news flash! 🙂

A bottle of ketchup lasts the 2 of us about 6 months. I put it on burgers,
fried potatoes, and sometimes add horseradish to make cocktail sauce. An
occasional Thai or Chinese recipe calls for a couple of TB, and once in a
while I use it as an ingredient in BBQ sauce. My wife also puts it on eggs
(may god forgive her). I cannot imagine what people use it for to go through
so much.

--
Peter Aitken

My wife drinks the stuff like a vampire. I think she puts the [censored] in
her coffe but she sez there is no room for it after the 9/10 of a cup
of sugar she adds.

🙂

Peter Aitken said:

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In article <[email hidden]>,
"Gregory Morrow"

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OH! This week my local Treasure Island soopermart here in Chicawgo has
Heinz ketchup for $.79/bottle. This is the cheapest I've seen it some
time,
I bought a lot so I'll be stocked for the winter. You can NEVER have too
much ketchup stocked away ;-)

Hah! I couldn't agree more, but that's hardly a news flash! 🙂

A bottle of ketchup lasts the 2 of us about 6 months. I put it on burgers,
fried potatoes, and sometimes add horseradish to make cocktail sauce. An
occasional Thai or Chinese recipe calls for a couple of TB, and once in a
while I use it as an ingredient in BBQ sauce. My wife also puts it on eggs
(may god forgive her). I cannot imagine what people use it for to go through
so much.

Peter Aitken said:

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In article <[email hidden]>,
"Gregory Morrow"

Quoted message said:

OH! This week my local Treasure Island soopermart here in Chicawgo has
Heinz ketchup for $.79/bottle. This is the cheapest I've seen it some
time,
I bought a lot so I'll be stocked for the winter. You can NEVER have too
much ketchup stocked away ;-)

Hah! I couldn't agree more, but that's hardly a news flash! 🙂

A bottle of ketchup lasts the 2 of us about 6 months. I put it on burgers,
fried potatoes, and sometimes add horseradish to make cocktail sauce. An
occasional Thai or Chinese recipe calls for a couple of TB, and once in a
while I use it as an ingredient in BBQ sauce. My wife also puts it on eggs
(may god forgive her). I cannot imagine what people use it for to go through
so much.

We use ketchup in meatloaf, sweet & sour sauce, and baked beans as well
as using it occasionally as a condiment. The baked beans uses 2 c of
ketchup so it doesn't take long to go through ketchup at that rate. I'm
making ketchup this year because I want to play with the flavour a
little. I find the store brand ketchups bland compared to Heinz.

~patches~ said:

Peter Aitken said:

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In article <[email hidden]>,
"Gregory Morrow"
<[email hidden]> wrote:

>OH! This week my local Treasure Island soopermart here in Chicawgo has
>Heinz ketchup for $.79/bottle. This is the cheapest I've seen it some
>time,
>I bought a lot so I'll be stocked for the winter. You can NEVER have too
>much ketchup stocked away ;-)

Hah! I couldn't agree more, but that's hardly a news flash! 🙂

A bottle of ketchup lasts the 2 of us about 6 months. I put it on burgers,
fried potatoes, and sometimes add horseradish to make cocktail sauce. An
occasional Thai or Chinese recipe calls for a couple of TB, and once in a
while I use it as an ingredient in BBQ sauce. My wife also puts it on eggs
(may god forgive her). I cannot imagine what people use it for to go through
so much.

We use ketchup in meatloaf, sweet & sour sauce, and baked beans as well
as using it occasionally as a condiment. The baked beans uses 2 c of
ketchup so it doesn't take long to go through ketchup at that rate. I'm
making ketchup this year because I want to play with the flavour a
little. I find the store brand ketchups bland compared to Heinz.

I know I'm a lil behind on this topic. You see, I just could
not.....wait for it........

Ketchup!

hahahahahah

The only other suggestion I have is to never ever

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again write "alot", it's not a word... makes you appear dumber than a
pile of [censored].

I appologize I never realized this was an English class!

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MJ said:

I was wondering if anyone had a good dill pickle recipe using normal

size

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

cucumbers..All the recipes i find are for small pickling cukes. I have

alot

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

of cucumbers left from the garden and would like to pickle them up..i

have

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

made some into sweet refridgerator pickles but i would like some dill.

Any

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

suggestions would be great.

You can use any cukes so long as they're not waxed, were picked that
day, and not so large that they've gone to seed. Naturally next year
you will plant some pickling cukes, like kirbys, which also are
excellent for salads. To find great recipes search the net for
<fermented pickles>. The only other suggestion I have is to never ever
again write "alot", it's not a word... makes you appear dumber than a
pile of [censored].

Sheldon

Peter Aitken said:

A bottle of ketchup lasts the 2 of us about 6 months. I put it on burgers,
fried potatoes, and sometimes add horseradish to make cocktail sauce. An
occasional Thai or Chinese recipe calls for a couple of TB, and once in a
while I use it as an ingredient in BBQ sauce. My wife also puts it on eggs
(may god forgive her). I cannot imagine what people use it for to go through
so much.

Pizza sauce, pasta sauce, vegetable juice drink, bloody marys, virgin
marys, chicken, steak, chicken fried steak. The list goes on.

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Peter Aitken

-bwg

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Peter Aitken said:

A bottle of ketchup lasts the 2 of us about 6 months. I put it on
burgers,
fried potatoes, and sometimes add horseradish to make cocktail sauce. An
occasional Thai or Chinese recipe calls for a couple of TB, and once in a
while I use it as an ingredient in BBQ sauce. My wife also puts it on
eggs
(may god forgive her). I cannot imagine what people use it for to go
through
so much.

Pizza sauce, pasta sauce, vegetable juice drink, bloody marys, virgin
marys, chicken, steak, chicken fried steak. The list goes on.

I am not sure whether you are serious or are pulling my chain. Ketchup in
pizza and pasta sauce? On chicken? Steak? Please tell me you are joking.

--
Peter Aitken

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Peter Aitken said:

A bottle of ketchup lasts the 2 of us about 6 months. I put it on
burgers,
fried potatoes, and sometimes add horseradish to make cocktail sauce. An
occasional Thai or Chinese recipe calls for a couple of TB, and once in a
while I use it as an ingredient in BBQ sauce. My wife also puts it on
eggs
(may god forgive her). I cannot imagine what people use it for to go
through
so much.

Pizza sauce, pasta sauce, vegetable juice drink, bloody marys, virgin
marys, chicken, steak, chicken fried steak. The list goes on.

I am not sure whether you are serious or are pulling my chain. Ketchup in
pizza and pasta sauce? On chicken? Steak? Please tell me you are joking.

--
Peter Aitken

Peter Aitken said:

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Peter Aitken said:

A bottle of ketchup lasts the 2 of us about 6 months. I put it on
burgers,
fried potatoes, and sometimes add horseradish to make cocktail sauce. An
occasional Thai or Chinese recipe calls for a couple of TB, and once in a
while I use it as an ingredient in BBQ sauce. My wife also puts it on
eggs
(may god forgive her). I cannot imagine what people use it for to go
through
so much.

Pizza sauce, pasta sauce, vegetable juice drink, bloody marys, virgin
marys, chicken, steak, chicken fried steak. The list goes on.

I am not sure whether you are serious or are pulling my chain. Ketchup in
pizza and pasta sauce? On chicken? Steak? Please tell me you are joking.

--
Peter Aitken

I was joking. I did try some recently on my first ever attempt at fried
green tomatoes. They were better without it. I may make another batch
tonight. I did like German curry-flavored tomato ketchup on lamb
SHOULDER chops. (I would never put it on leg of lamb or lamb loin ir
rib chops, though.)

-bwg

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Peter Aitken said:

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Peter Aitken wrote:
> A bottle of ketchup lasts the 2 of us about 6 months. I put it on
> burgers,
> fried potatoes, and sometimes add horseradish to make cocktail sauce.
> An
> occasional Thai or Chinese recipe calls for a couple of TB, and once
> in a
> while I use it as an ingredient in BBQ sauce. My wife also puts it on
> eggs
> (may god forgive her). I cannot imagine what people use it for to go
> through
> so much.
>

Pizza sauce, pasta sauce, vegetable juice drink, bloody marys, virgin
marys, chicken, steak, chicken fried steak. The list goes on.

I am not sure whether you are serious or are pulling my chain. Ketchup in
pizza and pasta sauce? On chicken? Steak? Please tell me you are joking.

--
Peter Aitken

I was joking. I did try some recently on my first ever attempt at fried
green tomatoes. They were better without it. I may make another batch
tonight. I did like German curry-flavored tomato ketchup on lamb
SHOULDER chops. (I would never put it on leg of lamb or lamb loin ir
rib chops, though.)

-bwg

Whew, I am relieved!

--
Peter Aitken
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