ISO: ANYONE, HALF SOUR PICKLES?

[Andypants]

Sorry, I hadn't read your reply.

[SheCooksToConquer]

Amber:

If you're in Denver, you can get Batampte Half-Sours at East Side Kosher Deli.
-Sara, who just moved out of Denver

[SheCooksToConquer]

My FAVORITE STORY about my mother's father.

Towards the end of his life, he lived with my mother in Washington, DC. One day, he got it into his head to make pickles. First, he had my mother drive him all over DC looking for the right kind of barrels. Can't make pickles with just ANY barrels. My mother did this after he PROMISED to show her what he did and give her his recipe.
So.
They got the barrels, and the "cooking" began.
"First," he said, you fill the barrel with water and add enough salt until it tastes like the ocean.
"What if you don't know what the ocean tastes like," my mother asked?
My grandfather gave a classic Jewish shrug and said, "Don't make pickles."



Sara

[Sarah Chana]

Love it! A classic Jewish answer!

[Oolala]

SheCooksToConquer wrote:
My FAVORITE STORY about my mother's father.

Towards the end of his life, he lived with my mother in Washington, DC. One day, he got it into his head to make pickles. First, he had my mother drive him all over DC looking for the right kind of barrels. Can't make pickles with just ANY barrels. My mother did this after he PROMISED to show her what he did and give her his recipe.
So.
They got the barrels, and the "cooking" began.
"First," he said, you fill the barrel with water and add enough salt until it tastes like the ocean.
"What if you don't know what the ocean tastes like," my mother asked?
My grandfather gave a classic Jewish shrug and said, "Don't make pickles."



Sara

I LOVE that! Not sure if it's true or a joke

[SheCooksToConquer]

It's absolutely true. Honest.
-Sara

[Amberngriffinco]

http://www.jewishcooking.org/kosherfood/east-side-kosher-deli.html


Thanks

I am GOING TO GO THERE on Friday after my dermatologist appt.. I WONDER if they have bialy's????

Mmmmmmmmmm

[Amberngriffinco]

i tried to make this one in my 20's.. they became very moldy..why?

a

[Oolala]

I never made them so I have no idea. We need to call a pickle professional!

[Andypants]

I bought some pickles at the store that had mold on them. I assume the brine wasn't acidic or salty enough.

[Skipper/Sy]

Hello Amber,

It is very hard to find plum green tomatoes for pickling. However, in my local supermarket they had a big bin full of red plum tomatoes and here and their green ones. So I picked through and found about 10 big green tomatoes (several were a touch turning red on the inside and outside).
Sooo, I made sour tomatoes... pickled for 2 weeks.. and they came out very good (Just before Thanksgiving)! Oh, I took photos and will post some day.

For half sour pickles, you can just let them pickle for about 1 week, to taste!

Again, here is my recipe;
Shlomo's Kosher Sour Pickles/Tomatoes by Sy
http://www.recipezaar.com/73027

Skipper/Sy

[Andypants]

I just saw some Dietz and Watson half sours and pickled tomatoes at a non-chain grocery store near me. I still have a shelf full of Ba-Tampte tomatoes in my fridge or I would have bought some.

[Skipper/Sy]

Check out the Pickled Sour Tomatoes photo I took recently... and had made this about a month ago...

Shlomo's Kosher Sour Pickles/Tomatoes by Sy
http://www.recipezaar.com/73027

SkipperSy

Skipper/Sy wrote:
Hello Amber,

It is very hard to find plum green tomatoes for pickling. However, in my local supermarket they had a big bin full of red plum tomatoes and here and their green ones. So I picked through and found about 10 big green tomatoes (several were a touch turning red on the inside and outside).
Sooo, I made sour tomatoes... pickled for 2 weeks.. and they came out very good (Just before Thanksgiving)! Oh, I took photos and will post some day.

For half sour pickles, you can just let them pickle for about 1 week, to taste!

Again, here is my recipe;
Shlomo's Kosher Sour Pickles/Tomatoes by Sy
http://www.recipezaar.com/73027

Skipper/Sy

[Amberngriffinco]

Thanks.

I'll try again this Summer

a

[Wheres_the_Beef?]

There is an extensive discussion about SALT FERMENTED KOSHER DILL PICKLES along with a recipe from a Rabbi that gives classes on how to make them, at Chowhound.com. Here's the link to the discussion:

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/805067