We have so many cucumbers growing! I am the only person in the family that likes cucumbers, but these just don't taste quite...good. But I don't want to waste them, so I guess it is pickle time! I don't care for dills (okay, that is a bit of an understatement-I despise dills), so I am concentrating on sweets and bread & butters.
Last weekend, I found a recipe here for refrigerator bread and butter pickles. It was very simple-I just cooked the vinegar, sugar, and a few other ingredients to get the sugar to dissolve, and then covered my sliced cucumbers (sliced with a machine-not by hand) with the liquid, and refrigerated them for 24 hours. Voila! They were ready! I thought they were delicious, but my family said they still tasted like cucumbers. I am hoping that in a couple weeks when they have had more time to meld together, the cucumber taste will have disappeared.
In the meantime, I have more cucumbers growing, and don't want to use the same recipe if no one but me likes them. So I found another recipe today here that is for microwave bread and butter pickles. I was getting ready to ignore the recipe because I kind of figured "who makes pickles in the microwave?", but then I read the "reviews" of the pickles below the recipe. So many people have commented on how great they tasted, that I figured, "why not give it a try? It's just one cucumber." I made them this morning-this time slicing the cucumber long ways, and combining all ingredients in the microwave for 9 minutes before placing the concoction in a jar and in the fridge. As soon as they are cooled they will be ready to eat.
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