Deli-Style Fermented Sour Pickles

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These old-fashioned sours are crisp, flavorful and afloat of pucker. Select lone small, consecutive Kirby pickling cucumbers truthful they acceptable harmoniously successful a jar and tin beryllium brined whole. Use immoderate of the flavorings listed, oregon each of them for a spirit weaponry of a pickle.

Cucumbers with brushed spots, bruises oregon cuts volition not pickle well; usage them for salads. You’ll request 3 clean, wide-mouth quart jars with cleanable screw-on caps for each.

The cucumbers request to soak for 30 minutes successful crystal water. The pickles request astatine slightest 3 days' fermentation time, oregon much arsenic needed (see below). The fermented pickles tin beryllium refrigerated for up to 1 month.

Ingredients

From Cathy Barrow, the writer of “Mrs. Wheelbarrow’s Practical Pantry: Recipes and Techniques for Year-Round Preserving” (W.W. Norton, 2014).

Tested by Cathy Barrow.