The Tiniest Pickling Cucumber Ever!

That's right. It's a tiny cucumber. I found it in with my latest batch of pickling cukes and I couldn't resist snapping a photo of it.

This is your last reminder from me that pickling cucumber season is almost over. You'd better hurry up and get your fresh cukes and start pickling. Now. If you want to have to have a pickles in your pantry all year 'round, n-o-w is the time to get busy!

So far this year I've turned bucketfuls of cukes into Blue Ribbon Dills, Deli-style Dill Spears and Bread & Butter Pickle Slices and I know that here in Western Washington Duris Cucumber Farm will only have fresh-picked-daily pickling cucumbers for another week or two.

As the Roman poet Horace famously said "Carpe Diem".

Maybe I should say, "Carpe Cucumbers"!

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7 different pickle recipes in 7 days, sort of.

Updated on Friday, September 17, 2010 at 8:42AM by Brook Hurst Stephens

More like 4 types of pickles completed in 3 days, and 3 more types of pickles in various stages of brining, pickling or curing as I type this.

I bought ~ 100 pounds (of assorted sizes) of fresh-picked pickling cucumbers on Friday, and the first thing I did when I got them home was put them in big tubs of fresh cold water. Letting them sit overnight in water makes it easier to scrub the little bits of dust and dirt from their nubby skins the next morning and enhances their crispiness later.

Pickling cukes soaking in a tub of clean cold water overnight.

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