When I made the next batches of pickles last week, I was a bit nervous. We hadn't tried the first batch of pickles since they needed to wait four to six weeks, and I'm a bit picky about how I like my pickles. What if I made this second batch and then when we tried them in a few months, they tasted horrible? What a waste that would be.
I decided yesterday to crack open a jar from the first batch. It had been seven weeks since they were made and I figured if they tasted bad, I wouldn't make any more.
I passed a pickle to each of us.
I have to say, they were some of the best darn pickles that I've ever had. My reaction was "Darn, we should have made more pickles...." and I started wondering where I could get larger jars and more pickling cucumbers.
The oldest agreed with me that we need a lot more jars of pickles to line the basement walls.
