kari okurky!

na 6 až 8 sklenic
2,5 kg okurek
3 lžíce soli
7 menších cibulí
na nálev
600 ml octa
400 g cukru krystal
1 lžičku mletého černého pepře
2 lžičky kari
špetku chilli
1 lžičku kopru
1,5 litru vody
POSTUP::
Svařte spolu všechny ingredience potřebné na nálev. Cibuli nakrájenou na kolečka a okurky smíchejte se solí a nechejte dvě hodiny odstát.
Poté z okurek rukama vyždímejte vodu, přilijte nálev a vše rozdělte do skleniček. Důkladně zavíčkujte a 20 minut zavařujte.
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recipe cucumbers w/currant *

Tady to je ten recept, vyfocený z časopisu Blesk pro ženy. Masakr. Je barevný a voní klasicky jak něměcké časopisy a kataloGy...

okurčičky

Našla jsem zajímavý tip na zavařování okurek, a to s rybízovým listem ohoho. Zdroy

horse radish w/carrot *

na 4 menší sklenice
2 kg okurek
4 malé bobkové listy
1 lžičku hořčičného semínka
4 zrnka nového koření
4 malé mrkve
1 cibuli
8 kousků křenu (asi 5 cm dlouhé)
kopr
na nálev 570 ml vody
160 ml octa
55 g cukru krystal
10 g soli
POSTUP::
(1) Svařením vody s octem, cukrem a solí si připravte nálev. Na dno čtyř sklenic si rozdělte koření a kopr s bobkovými listy (bay leaf). Přidávejte okurky a prokládejte je kolečky mrkve, cibule a špalíčky křenu.
(2) Prochladlým nálevem zalijte okurky, uzavřete sklenice a sterilujte 10 minut. Poté je ihned vyndejte z hrnce a nechte vychladnout.
rychle hotové, že? zdroj časopis

Preserving cooker

Interesting and very helpful thing. It´s not cheap, but it´s an excellent helper while preserving. It can have a capacity of about 25 bottles. And of course, it works very smart and fast.
Put the jars to be preserved inside, pour sufficient amount of water to have the two decks of jars fully plunged and the top deck sunk partially. Set the cooker to boil, and from the point of boiling water there starts the preservation. Adequate time for preservate the cucumbers is 25 mins, 30 for be ultra sure. Then put the jars of the cooker with some kind of kitchen pliers and place them to chill out onto a solid cold surface such as flagstones. I do turn them upside down to be certain they are well closed with the lid. Some ppl don´t do that and i guess it´s not absolutely inavoidable. Have fun with home made pickles and enjoy!

Doing the job!

I love to prepare all the ingredients into bowl and pick this pick that what is needed in the moment. Sufficient number of glasses with metal lids suitable for perserving must be clean thoroughly and now, when the pickle is cooked and came through the boil, is the right time to fill the jars. It´s my secret to place the slice of carrot on every bottom, but as you can see it on my result photo (i´m contented anyways), not everytime it stays still on the bottom as perserving is an exacting work and when it´s finished, the jars are placed bottoms up to chill out.
Fill the glass jars with cucumbers, carrot and onion slices, and mind to fill the cucumbers crowded, no much left spaces in the jar. It´s quite a puzzle sometimes :-)
When they are full, pour them with the pickle richly, screw the metal lids and now to the perserving pan!

Preserving Cucumbers

Afternoon I´m dedicating my time to preserving cucumbers to have some delicious pickles for worse winter time. Bad luck is that this year the price of cucumbers increased from 6 czk per kilo to 20 czk, but i don´t pay for that so i don´t care. My job is to make them tastey.
Firstly is necessary to clean the cucus properly cause who´d like to eat mud infusion... The best way is to put them into a dishpan full of water and brush them one by one.
Next step is making a perfect pickle. I love it both sweet and harsch. What is absolutely needed is a big cooker, best content about 20 litres. For 10 litres of water I use 2 litres of vinegar. In my country the cheapest vinegar is the spirit type and has the 8% content (8% solution of acid acetic in water). Give the water and vinegar into the gigantic cooker, add about 650 grams of white sugar, 1/4 kilo of salt, at least 15 pcs of bay leaf (also known as laurel bay), 76 pcs of black pepper (the little balls), about 40 pimiento balls.
Step 3: have kilo of carrots, brush them and cut into round slices. 10 nice fresh big onions cut into round slices. This year i have 45 jars (content 0,7l) of preserved cucumbers.