Reviews for Quick Pickles: Easy Recipes with Big Flavor

The average rating for Quick Pickles: Easy Recipes with Big Flavor based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-07-31 00:00:00 christopher sharron This is a well-written book that focuses on easy-to-make pickles. The authors focus mostly on fresh pickles (preserved with vinegar and salt, need to be refrigerated) and fermented pickles (pickled in brine, need to be "tended" as the fermentation works); they also have a few oil-based pickles, which are Asian in origin. The photographs in the book are beautiful - some show the finished product, while some show all the ingredients set out together. I am a complete pickle novice, but Caleb (who isn't a novice) and I made their bread and butter pickle, which are very good although I still want to experiment with them a little. There are intriguing recipes, like American Midwest-Style Garden Pickles, which has peppers, cauliflower, and corn on the cob sliced into little wheels, and Crunchy Orange-Pickled Red Onions with Chipotle and Tequila. That may be my next batch! I found this title in Mark Bittman's blog; the guest writer gave a green bean pickle recipe, and also recommended this book.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-01-17 00:00:00 Hakon Nottveit There are so many fantastic recipes in this book, but of course the first ones I had to try were the dill pickles (I made them without mustard seed because my daughter is super allergic to mustard.) WOW. They were amazing and crunchy and dilly and garlicky, and the red onions were a treat as well. Cannot stop eating them, and the flavor developed pretty quickly, too (book recommends waiting two days to eat, but even after sitting in the fridge overnight they were wonderful).