Combatting the Green Menace

[robling_t]

So, this... happened:



Went on a fridge-pickling rampage and did some tinkering to an initial recipe to rebalance it more to my liking:

• 1 cup vinegar
  
• 1/4 cup water
  
• 3 tbsp sugar
  
• 2 tsp salt
  

Mix together and heat/stir until sugar dissolves. Pour over 2 cups cut-up cucumbers and bung in the fridge. Will allegedly keep for a month.



One notes that at current exchange rates 2 cups = +/- 1 cucumber. That big one on the left, for example, which I gave away to more responsible picklers than myself, would have been at least 3 cups.

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[bibliofile]

Mmmm, cucumbers! Though mine probably wouldn't last long enough to become pickles.

Sadly, in Madison it's difficult to find pickling cucumbers out of season.

[robling_t]

These were the slicing-cukes from what passes for my garden; this was one of the two years out of three that the conditions out there seem to be exactly to their liking and I end up with far more cucumbers than I can keep on top of, so I decided to see what could be done about stretching out the season a bit... Spoiler: I've already eaten four quarts of fridge-pickles. But there's still most of a 1/2-gallon that the More Responsible Picklers gave me... *sigh*