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Re: Fibblesnork Uber-Garlic Pickles are in the fridge
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Wed, 4 Nov 1998 01:44:51 GMT
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Ah, the next chef for the Cooking Channel!!!!
Todd Lehman wrote:
> [Followups set to lugnet.off-topic.fun]
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> "Ralph Hempel" <rhempel@bmts.com> writes:
> > Scott Smallbeck wrote in message ...
> > > I just finished preparing a jar of Fibblesnork Uber-Garlic pickles and cannot
> > > wait to try them. I am very curious to see how long it takes for the peppers
> > > and garlic to be absorbed into the pickles.
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> If you've run the garlic through a garlic press, then the flavor is usually
> soaked in pretty well after only a few hours. But it's still best to let it
> mature for 2-3 days. Beware of eating the pickles too early -- even with
> pressed garlic -- you need to give the whole mixture time for the "raw
> garlic" taste to dissolve away and evolve into the warm, buttery flavour.
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> > > I will try a few every day
> > > starting tomorrow and will see how fast the flavor develops.
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> I guess Fall is the season for these... :) I just made a few jars of these
> myself over the past week. It saves significantly on the costs to do 3 or 4
> or more jars at once. Plus you can give whole jars of them away to friends.
>
> Say, I just discovered a new flavour improvement -- I'm not sure about
> adding it to the official recipe yet, but it seems to be working so far.
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> See what you think:
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> Add 1 teaspoon of dry-roasted sunflower seed kernels (that is, the hearts/
> insides, not the shells) to the mixture. Doesn't matter if they're salted
> or unsalted -- there's enough salt in the pickles already. The sunflower
> seeds bring out an additional warm, buttery aftertaste...really yummy.
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> And you can spoon out the pickled sunflower seeds afterwards too -- they're
> actually not too bad!
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> > Stand well clear of the blast zone, or your eyes may water. The garlic and
> > peppers are absorbed slowly but, depending on your digestive tract, they can
> > be expelled with remarkable force.
> > So much for "What you can't see can't hurt you..."
>
> Hmm (eek!) there's a new quote for the Quotes page. :)
>
> --Todd
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| [Followups set to lugnet.off-topic.fun] (...) If you've run the garlic through a garlic press, then the flavor is usually soaked in pretty well after only a few hours. But it's still best to let it mature for 2-3 days. Beware of eating the pickles (...) (28 years ago, 3-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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