Apple cider vinegar and dill pickles

Pickled apple cider vinegar and dill pickles in vinegar- easy recipe for pickling cucumbers. Perfect for preserving cucumbers before winter. Consume them during the cold season with your favorite foods. Pickled cucumbers in vinegar- easy recipe for pickling cucumbers.

When is the perfect time to make pickles for winter? It is September, the proper time to pickle beautiful vegetables from Farmer’s Markets and personal gardens! This is the moment, people, as it will not last forever. In Minnesota, the summers are short, but the markets offer an abundance of vegetables and fruits from late August to late October. This is when I try to take advantage of the beautiful gifts from the gardens and preserve some of them for the winter. Yes, I can, but you see, there is something therapeutic about being in the kitchen and making food for my family.

Some would say that the amount of work is not worth it. I will say that for me, it is essential, as I can preserve vegetables using old recipes that I inherited from my family. These recipes were used when canning and preserving food for the winter was the only way of surviving. Pickles are well-known staples of the traditional cuisine of the Old Continent, Europe. Even today, many cultures consider pickled cucumbers to be an essential part of their diet during the winter. In Eastern Europe, during the wintertime, people replace fresh vegetable salads with pickled vegetables, like cucumbers, peppers, cabbage, cauliflower, carrots, etc. There is nothing better than a jar of pickles on the table during the winter, next to stews, soups, roasted meats, beans, or potatoes.

We also make a lot of lacto-fermented foods, like sauerkraut or cucumbers in brine. What are the best cucumbers for pickling? Kirby cucumbers- are small cucumbers and are very popular in Farmer Markets. They have bumpy skins and firm flesh. Garden cucumbers are the most popular ones found in North America. They have thick skin and lots of seeds.