Pickles Redux

Posted by Blue Iris, June 11, 2008 at 1:09 PM

With food prices so high, I am remembering an old trick my mother used to feed her brood of eight in the fifties:
Pickle juice can be reused to make refrigerator pickles right in the same jar. Sometimes my mom would simply put carrot sticks, for example, in the pickle juice and let it sit a few days in the fridge.
I sometimes put the leftover pickle juice in a saucepan and add veggies (carrot sticks or minis, green beans, zucchini or cucumber slices, onion slices and so on) and possibly herbs and maybe vinegar or water. Bring just to a boil and then put back in the same jar (which has been heated up with some real hot water so it won't break). Then back in the fridge. Tastes better after a day or so.
Everyone appreciates the cold crunch of pickles on a hot day. And it's a good way to get veggies into the kids. We are now working on a jar of mini carrots which went into some bread-and-butter pickle juice along with the tough stalks of my dill which I needed to cut back. It's quite good.
Other ideas for pickle juice?

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