Hi,

gherkin crop is going O.K. so I thought I would look up pickling.

http://www.astray.com/recipes/?search=Pickles has three variants of the same
recipe and they all take four days of boiling, draining, boiling, draining
etc.

Is all pickling like this?

I thought you just boiled them up to sterilise them then shoved them in
pickling vinegar!

Aha!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A579738
This is more my style :-)

Any favourite recipes which involve wonderful taste and minimal work?

Cheers
Dave R
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