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voxwomanOur pickles! We had our taste test yesterday at dinner. The Kosher dills are a triumph. Thank you, Mrs. Wages. I must now order additional mix packs and acquire another dozen jars for making another batch, so we have enough to distribute as gifts. People far and wide have been inquiring about them.
Even the "half brine" batches are tasty. More vinegar-y and less garlic-y than the full brine batches, but edible all the same. I am amazed and impressed that you can get pickles in just 24 hours, and not leaving them to soak in a barrel of brine for a month or two.
R isn't convinced we have another batch of cukes that will come in sufficient quantity. Considering that the damn plants are still producing flowers and growing pretty much a foot or 2 a day, I disagree with him. I think we'll be harvesting cucumbers until frost kills the plants. That could be November.
I could only find 2 partial sheets of jar labels, so I went and ordered new ones. I know, I could probably design my own and then print them, but these are pretty and I have enough to do without doing everything by hand. Plus I don't think ink jet printing is going to hold up on a jar. And that's all I have right now. Maybe when I have time over the winter, I'll design some canning jar labels and get them printed at Kinko's or something.
Even the "half brine" batches are tasty. More vinegar-y and less garlic-y than the full brine batches, but edible all the same. I am amazed and impressed that you can get pickles in just 24 hours, and not leaving them to soak in a barrel of brine for a month or two.
R isn't convinced we have another batch of cukes that will come in sufficient quantity. Considering that the damn plants are still producing flowers and growing pretty much a foot or 2 a day, I disagree with him. I think we'll be harvesting cucumbers until frost kills the plants. That could be November.
I could only find 2 partial sheets of jar labels, so I went and ordered new ones. I know, I could probably design my own and then print them, but these are pretty and I have enough to do without doing everything by hand. Plus I don't think ink jet printing is going to hold up on a jar. And that's all I have right now. Maybe when I have time over the winter, I'll design some canning jar labels and get them printed at Kinko's or something.
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Date: 2008-08-26 11:46 am (UTC)Will that be the VoxPickle brand? :-)
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Date: 2008-08-26 11:53 am (UTC)(for those of you who don't read Regencies, it's a play on words. There was a place in London, apparently, called Vauxhall Gardens. Many of my mother's characters danced the night away there)
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Date: 2008-08-26 02:30 pm (UTC)But I must say that your enthusiasm is best kept across the Pacific Ocean... for it may well be contagious if we lived closer... and then OMG I might have to learn how to cook!
and for goodness sake.... making your own labels? Im surprised you aint firing up the furnace to make the jars.... lady you need to get a hobby (ROFLMAO)
happy eating!!! M.
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Date: 2008-08-26 08:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-26 09:29 pm (UTC)it is to your credit how much you seem to pack into your life!