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Marketmore cucumbers for pickles. My fav veggies to use include cukes of all sizes some sliced and some whole carrots try both sticks and ripple cut slices cauliflower okra cabbage red and green the red turns a beautiful shocking pink celery and jicama strange but true.
This is a nice tasting variety and easy to start from seed.
Can you use regular cucumbers for pickles. Burpless cucumbers are not recommended for use in fermented pickles. This is because at their normal mature size they produce a softening enzyme that causes the pickles to soften during fermentation. The pickling ones are grown mostly for canning.
The slicing ones are grown for fresh eating. Slicing cucumbers which includes english cucumbers can be used for pickles but you might get a softer pickle. Slicing cucumbers though always can be used in relish with no hesitation where any softness won t matter near as much.
They are also an interesting vegetable to juice it has a distinct clean flavor. There are lots of uses for regular cucumbers out there. Serenesurface november 3 2012 sarahgen shorter varieties of cucumbers do make better pickles and you can select them depending on how flavorful and sweet you want the pickles to be.
And to answer someone s question above yes you can use while cukes even big ones they just take longer to cure all the way through. My fav veggies to use include cukes of all sizes some sliced and some whole carrots try both sticks and ripple cut slices cauliflower okra cabbage red and green the red turns a beautiful shocking pink celery and jicama strange but true. Marketmore cucumbers for pickles.
Published on september 2 2015 september 2 2015 by thelma. This is a nice tasting variety and easy to start from seed. They have been prolific this summer.
Which meant it was time to make pickles. To make a cup of tea you can use regular or dry it doesnt matter. But the earliest use of cucumber preserved in pickle is believed to come from 1440 a d.
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