{"id":1572,"date":"2020-09-06T10:34:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T17:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2020-09-06T18:06:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T01:06:31","slug":"bread-and-butter-pickles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/bread-and-butter-pickles\/","title":{"rendered":"Bread and Butter Pickles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When life gives you gherkins, you make bread-and-butter pickles. At least, that’s what I’ve been doing. I started with this recipe<\/a>, but as usual, had to modify it based on what we happened to have in our spice rack. I made a few rookie moves, like using the mandoline<\/a> bare-handed (and let me tell you, that’s a mistake you’ll only make once. Those things are vicious!) But the pickles are so worth it. Sweet and spicy, great with a sandwich, or just straight out of the jar in your pyjamas (not that I’d ever do that, no sir.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These fresh gherkins have an amazing flavor, almost sweet, even the weird-looking yellow ones.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Sliced
Finally got an excuse to use the zigzag blade on the mandoline!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Spices
Cinnamon, turmeric, clove, cardamom, mustard seed, white peppercorns, chili flakes.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Gherkins<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Two 5-inch gherkins, with 1\/2 cup of pickling syrup, will just about fill one pint jar.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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When life gives you gherkins, you make bread-and-butter pickles. At least, that’s what I’ve been doing. I started with this recipe, but as usual, had to modify it based on what we happened to have in our spice rack. I made a few rookie moves, like using the mandoline bare-handed (and let me tell you, … Continue reading Bread and Butter Pickles<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,202,17,18,152],"tags":[200,201,205],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-gardening","category-personal","category-photos","category-recipes","tag-garden","tag-gherkin","tag-pickles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1581,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions\/1581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}