Not your grandma's pickles

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Not your grandma's pickles
Topic Started: Oct 16 2017, 08:31 AM (252 Views)
agate	Oct 16 2017, 08:31 AM Post #1
Posts: 21,864 Group: Administration Member #203 Joined: February 2, 2006	Interesting article. I have no grand-daughters at the 30 years of age, a few g-sons getting there but doubt they would be into this. I look at as a good sign. There's a new wave of home preservers on P.E.I. and they're creating food, drinks and snacks their grandmothers have likely never heard of. бЎCanning is cool again: Food blogger offers tips for making the most out of your garden haul бЎA more probiotic pyramid. Researcher wants fermented foods added to Canada Food Guide Lacto-fermentation is a particularly popular practice among this generation of homemakers бк it's natural fermentation, without any vinegar or cultures, that can be done simply in salt water on a countertop. Once the desired level of fermentation is reached, it goes in the fridge. "I don't think kombucha was something our grandmothers were making!" laughs Laura Hogan of Charlottetown, who started fermenting last year http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-pickles-preserving-generation-millennials-1.4351730 I particularly liked this... But I couldn't get it, so I called my nanny," MacEachern says. "She agreed to teach me how to make pickles just like she does." Her grandmother, Bette Campbell, even purchased all the supplies, and the two made bread-and-butter pickles and mustard pickles. MacEachern now cherishes the hand-written recipes her grandmother gave her, and has since attempted to make pickles on her own but says they've never turned out quite as good. We grannies better get ready laugh123



heatseeker	Oct 16 2017, 10:34 AM Post #2
Veteran Member Posts: 10,320 Group: Member Member #713 Joined: March 30, 2010	Good to see this



Trotsky	Oct 17 2017, 01:34 AM Post #3
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	Friends moved to the country and visited us yesterday and we went out for a nice Italian family style dinner. They brought us the biggest butternut squash I have ever seen, along with the smallest acorn squash, some nice fresh garlic and an assortment of jars: two jars of pickles, one fresh, the other a year old (bread and butter slices,) a peach chutney, a peach jam <they had a big peach harvest> and a black current & raspberry jam. Yaaay. Their only problem was the tomato crop which they said was sparse and watery.



agate	Oct 17 2017, 01:54 AM Post #4
Posts: 21,864 Group: Administration Member #203 Joined: February 2, 2006	Nice friends Trotsky. How are you going to do that butternut squash? I have a small one that was given to me. I think I will do it on the barbeque.



Trotsky	Oct 18 2017, 02:53 AM Post #5
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	agate Oct 17 2017, 01:54 AM Nice friends Trotsky. How are you going to do that butternut squash? I have a small one that was given to me. I think I will do it on the barbeque. I usually cut it in half, scoop out the seeds, and in the well put butter, cinnamon and ground cloves, wrap halves in foil and bake for 45 minutes but this one is so friggen enormous that the two of us couldn't eat it all. So maybe I'll quarter it lengthwise and make it twice. Now that Judith has died, they are our closest friends but they just moved 100 miles upstate so we may drift apart...it happens. Edited by Trotsky, Oct 18 2017, 02:55 AM.



angora	Oct 18 2017, 03:07 AM Post #6
WWS Book Club Coordinator Posts: 14,494 Group: Member Member #717 Joined: March 31, 2010	I like pepper squash cut up into chunks, tossed with salt and pepper and rosemary in olive oil and then baked. If I'm really feeling lazy I dont peel it beforehand so you just eat if from your fingers.



agate	Oct 18 2017, 03:44 AM Post #7
Posts: 21,864 Group: Administration Member #203 Joined: February 2, 2006	I usually do mine that way to Trotsky, that is if I can get it cut in half. Maybe you should try making some squash soup.



Trotsky	Oct 18 2017, 03:47 AM Post #8
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	Quote: I usually do mine that way to Trotsky, that is if I can get it cut in half. Sometimes I can almost envision lopping off a finger.



swing	Oct 18 2017, 03:39 PM Post #9
swing Posts: 9,979 Group: Member Member #359 Joined: August 18, 2006	Putting it in the micro for a few minutes to soften the skin, makes cutting easier.



Trotsky	Oct 19 2017, 12:48 AM Post #10
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	swing Oct 18 2017, 03:39 PM Putting it in the micro for a few minutes to soften the skin, makes cutting easier. Good idea, swing.



Alli	Nov 5 2017, 02:15 PM Post #11
Mistress, House of Cats Posts: 4,732 Group: Member Member #711 Joined: March 30, 2010	agate Oct 18 2017, 03:44 AM I usually do mine that way to Trotsky, that is if I can get it cut in half. Maybe you should try making some squash soup. I love squash soup.... added with a vanilla bean pod and heavy cream that's the fattening version , mine I make with the bean pod and almond milk less calories and the almond milk enhances the nutty taste of squash....



Trotsky	Nov 6 2017, 02:00 AM Post #12
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	Damn thing is still sitting on the counter, intimidating me.



angora	Nov 6 2017, 03:25 AM Post #13
WWS Book Club Coordinator Posts: 14,494 Group: Member Member #717 Joined: March 31, 2010	Do you have an electric carving knife? That's what I would want to try if I bought those squashes.



agate	Nov 6 2017, 05:35 AM Post #14
Posts: 21,864 Group: Administration Member #203 Joined: February 2, 2006	Trotsky Nov 6 2017, 02:00 AM Damn thing is still sitting on the counter, intimidating me. Hmmm I used mine today and it was a smallish one and the skin was not to tough. A friend gave it me from his garden so a fresh one, may make a difference in the toughness.



angora	Nov 7 2017, 03:18 AM Post #15
WWS Book Club Coordinator Posts: 14,494 Group: Member Member #717 Joined: March 31, 2010	I read somewhere about putting the squash in the micro for a short time. Never tried it but I thought I'd just throw that out there..before you throw the squash out.



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