It's Pickle Season

Every one has had a bumper crop of cucumbers this year. People are giving them away. We have made our standard bread and butter and dill's for the year. Does any one have a favorite recipe for useing these things up? I'm just about ready to get the potatoe cannon out and shoot them back into the field.

I have used the recipe for spicy dill pickles from one of Alfred Portale's book. If you pm me your e-mail address, I can send you a pdf of it.

Hi,

Check out the National Center for Food Preservation for research based canning information:

http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/

Ten Ways to Use Leftover Pickle Juice

love these uses, love summer pickles. my main juice use these days is homemade Bloody Marys. lots of pickle juice, worchesthire, horseradish, lemon, and tons of celery in the food processor.

I never thought of cleaning a stove top with pickle juice.

Long before I ever made my own pickles, I would slice fresh cucumbers into leftover juice for another round of tastiness.

I have kept leftover dill pickle juice for making Polish pickle soup. I love the stuff, but my primary Polish influencer Mom2 dislikes it intensely.

Regards,
Cathy2

The article mentions thinning mayo with pickle juice for potato salad. My mom used to pour a little pickle juice (as you would vinegar) on warmed sliced potatoes before adding the other ingredients to potato salad, including mayo. As a child, I thought her saving and using pickle juice one of the weirder things she did in the kitchen.

EvA wrote:The article mentions thinning mayo with pickle juice for potato salad. My mom used to pour a little pickle juice (as you would vinegar) on warmed sliced potatoes before adding the other ingredients to potato salad, including mayo. As a child, I thought her saving and using pickle juice one of the weirder things she did in the kitchen.

I usually make a vinaigrette for the warm potatoes to soak up while I prepare everything else for the potato salad. I use just enough mayo to bind.

I am going to try pickle juice sometime soon. Thanks for the tip!

Regards,
Cathy2

Cathy, what else goes in Polish pickle soup?

Hi,

Binko outlined his variant here.

I cannot find the recipe I last used, though from pictures and ingredients it was close to this.

Regards,
Cathy2

As long as we're talking about Mother's pickle juice use: My mother put dill pickle juice in her spaghetti sauce. Too make it "bright".

wesuilmo wrote:As long as we're talking about Mother's pickle juice use: My mother put dill pickle juice in her spaghetti sauce. Too make it "bright".

Did you like it? Do you follow her footsteps?

not apropos of much, but I had a severe leg cramp at 2 a.m. and I'd heard that pickle juice helps. I drank a small amount of juice and ate 3 pickles and it did the trick.

knitgirl wrote:not apropos of much, but I had a severe leg cramp at 2 a.m. and I'd heard that pickle juice helps. I drank a small amount of juice and ate 3 pickles and it did the trick.

I had heard that too - here's more:
https://www.healthline.com/health/pickl ... for-cramps

leek wrote:

knitgirl wrote:not apropos of much, but I had a severe leg cramp at 2 a.m. and I'd heard that pickle juice helps. I drank a small amount of juice and ate 3 pickles and it did the trick.

I had heard that too - here's more:
https://www.healthline.com/health/pickl ... for-cramps

Thanks for posting that. Interesting, especially this part "This reflex shuts down the misfiring of neurons in muscle all over the body, and “turns off” the cramping feeling. It’s thought that it’s specifically the vinegar content in pickle juice that does this."

Prior to the leg cramp, both legs felt like they were sort of pulsing which maybe could be attributed to the misfiring of neurons (?). At any rate, I definitely felt a lot better. Normally when I have the cramps they take much longer to resolve.

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Using pickle juice to alleviate leg cramps is an old Jewish tradition. My mistake was in rubbing it on my legs, instead of drinking it.

It didn’t work and the bedsheets had to be thrown away.

Done Hiding Their Shameful Secret, Pickle-Juice Drinkers Go Public

https://www.wsj.com/articles/done-hidin ... 1530202821

Hi,

Last night, I ordered a small pickle slushy at Sonic in Cicero. Before I even grasped the cup, "If you don't like it, my manager advised I can give you another flavor slushy."

I like the pickle slushy a lot. It is not just straight pickle juice, it is softened with a light sweetness.

Thanks for highlighting this interesting beverage.

Regards,
Cathy2

jimd wrote:Using pickle juice to alleviate leg cramps is an old Jewish tradition. My mistake was in rubbing it on my legs, instead of drinking it.

It's also heard of in the running community. My wife likes it after long runs. I'll drink it if she hands it to me. (After a long run I'll drink just about anything anyone hands me. )
It's supposed to be due to the effect that the astringency the vinegar has via the nervous system.
We have an empty jar of Claussen garlic dills in the refrigerator. (Empty in that there are no more pickles.)

HankB wrote:

jimd wrote:Using pickle juice to alleviate leg cramps is an old Jewish tradition. My mistake was in rubbing it on my legs, instead of drinking it.

It's also heard of in the running community. My wife likes it after long runs. I'll drink it if she hands it to me. (After a long run I'll drink just about anything anyone hands me. )
It's supposed to be due to the effect that the astringency the vinegar has via the nervous system.

There's next to no actual benefit gained from drinking pickle juice (or vinegar). Magnesium and potassium will cure your runner ills. Pickle juice is just a puckery placebo.

spinynorman99 wrote:There's next to no actual benefit gained from drinking pickle juice (or vinegar). Magnesium and potassium will cure your runner ills. Pickle juice is just a puckery placebo.

And I say again - https://www.healthline.com/health/pickl ... for-cramps

I saw pickle juice -- just the juice, no pickles in it -- in Jewel today for the first time. It was next to the bottle lemon and lime juices.

Cathy2 wrote:Hi,

Binko outlined his variant here.

I cannot find the recipe I last used, though from pictures and ingredients it was close to this.

Regards,
Cathy2

Oh, I should have also mentioned in the other thread that you can do it with rice instead of potatoes if you want. Or at least my mom more-often-than-not served it with rice as the starch, though I usually make it with potatoes.