California Farm Pickle Miniature Cucumbers

Hobby Horseman
Hobby Horseman @HobbyHorseman
California, United States

Armenian and persian cucumbers grow well here in our hot desert climate, and we pick them in June, when still small, before they produce a lot of seeds. Skin on, pickled fresh with a solution of boiled wine, vinegar, sugar, water and spices. They hold their delicious, crunchy, sweet-sour-spicy-fresh taste all year, fresh or sterilized.
To maintain their tender taste, we do not add the pickling spices we normally use to pickle fully grown English and Californian cucumbers.
If not eaten after a week in the fridge, we sterilize the leftover pickles in their mason jar in a waterbath, 15 minutes and keep them in the pantry.

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California Farm Pickle Miniature Cucumbers

Armenian and persian cucumbers grow well here in our hot desert climate, and we pick them in June, when still small, before they produce a lot of seeds. Skin on, pickled fresh with a solution of boiled wine, vinegar, sugar, water and spices. They hold their delicious, crunchy, sweet-sour-spicy-fresh taste all year, fresh or sterilized.
To maintain their tender taste, we do not add the pickling spices we normally use to pickle fully grown English and Californian cucumbers.
If not eaten after a week in the fridge, we sterilize the leftover pickles in their mason jar in a waterbath, 15 minutes and keep them in the pantry.

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Ingredients

15 minutes
2 people, 1 jar
  1. 4-5miniature whole armenian or persian cucumbers, slightly smaller than the height of a quart mason jar. Trim cucumber ends if longer
  2. 1/3 cupwhite cooking wine
  3. 1/3 cupapple cider vinegar
  4. 1/3 cupcane sugar
  5. 1/3 cupwater
  6. 3 cloveshardneck garlic
  7. 1 Tspgreen pepper corns
  8. 1/2 Tspdill weed
  9. 1/2 Tspturmeric
  10. 1/2 Tsppeppersauce
  11. 1 TbsSeasalt per quart of water to soak whole cucumbers overnight
  12. For our family heirloom pickling spice mix
  13. No salt
  14. Equipment: sauce pan, quart mason jar, knife, deep pan for sterilizing
  15. Cost: small cucumbers, farm free, $1 a pound in season at the farmers market, pickling solution, pennies

Cooking Instructions

15 minutes
  1. 1

    Soak cucumbers overnight in salted cold water, rinse. This firms the cucumbers and keeps them crunchy. Scrub cucumbers. Bring solution with spices to boil. Slice cucumbers lengthwise in half or quarter depending on thickness, set upright in mason jar. Pour boiling solution over, cool in fridge, serve.

  2. 2

    After one week in the fridge, top leftover pickles with fresh solution, close lids tight, immerse in boiling waterbath, sterilize 15 minutes, label with date and put in pantry.

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I teach people at the farmers market to grow small scale fruits and vegetables. My grandparents and parents taught me growing, cooking and preserving home grown fruits and vegetables, eggs, meats and fish. I got certified by the University of California Master Gardener Program in 2005. I try to bring out the original flavor of ingredients, then add layers of spices, herbs and flavorings that enhance, not distort the taste. These are the global, organic and vegan family recipes we use.
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