The cucumber plants in the vegetable garden look terrible at the moment.  The leaves keep being shredded by the wind.  But, regardless, they’re fruiting like crazy. So we’re enjoying cucumber soups, raitas and many salads.  But, we’re also ‘putting some by’ to enjoy in the winter months, as gherkins, dill pickles, pickled cucumbers or whatever you like to call them. For me, they’re brine cured pickled cucumbers and here’s how I make them… Brine Cured Dill Pickles Ingredients First of all, we’re talking knobbly ridge cucumbers, not shiny smooth greenhouse grown varieties.  But, that is the only rule I abide […]