Pat Meadows wrote:

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 12:33:34 +0100, "Mike Le Pelley"
wrote:

I realise this isn't technically to do with growing, but thought someone
might be able to help out. My cornichons (gherkins) are approaching full
size, and now I need to think about pickling them. I was wondering if
anyone had any good recipes/techniques for pickling, as the web doesn't
really seem very helpful on this front.

Thanks in advance.

I suggest you ask over on rec.food.preserving - a very good
newsgroup, helpful and friendly.

Pat


Where, among other responses, you will be told to go to
http://www.google.com and enter "pickles+canning" as the search term because
that will net you ~17,400 sites covering the topic of canning pickles.

Might as well go over there now. BTW ... I've been canning my fool head off
the past few weeks using recipes I came up with online. I doubt if I will
be able to get to even 1% of the totally unique recipes I found, let alone
trying any of the minor, but interesting, variations.

Pat and I (and some of the others) also post over on that newsgroup but
since there is a newsgroup covering that topic area, talk about the
preservation part of gardening over there. This newsgroup is more focused
on the growing part.

Bill
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Zone 5b (Detroit, MI)
I do not post my address to news groups.