{"id":31992,"date":"2020-10-06T13:11:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T13:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=31992"},"modified":"2020-10-06T13:12:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T13:12:53","slug":"our-home-grown-chillies-and-pickles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=31992","title":{"rendered":"Our home grown chillies and pickles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Three weeks ago I put our chillies on a rack to dry out. This was the photo of them back then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chillies drying out on a rack<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To my surprise they have changed colour. This is the photo of the chillies today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Most of the chillies have gone red<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I think they look quite beautiful. As they can be used as they are or ground to a powder I am going to leave them longer to see if they dry out some more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An update on our pickles. The gherkins which we pickled in a mixture of brine and vinegar have turned out really well and are very similar to shop bought ones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The runner beans have been a work in progress. I cheated and used pickling vinegar for them which can be used cold and so seemed a more simple method. When we tried them about three weeks later they were lovely and crunchy but so sour and acidic that we just couldn’t eat them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will never use pickling vinegar again. I googled and followed instructions for if your product is too sour. I drained off the vinegar and added quite a good amount of sugar and left it for a few days to dissolve. I then added it back to the beans and we tried them. They were still so sour that they were inedible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next I drained them again and poured over them the vinegar from a used jar of pickled onions. I thought that this would mean that the vinegar would be right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only thing is, that now, the beans taste just like pickled onions. They have the same crunch and with your eyes closed you wouldn’t know you were not eating a pickled onion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pickled beans mark three<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It isn’t really what I would call a success as I am not sure of the benefit of beans that taste like pickled onions but I guess it has been a learning curve. Drying chillies and pickling are a first for us so it’s all experimental really.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have learned a few lessons about vinegar and I think that is the part that we need to get right. It’s a shame about the beans as we have two jars of them and I think they will take a very long time for us to eat. There again there was such an abundance of beans that it wouldn’t really matter if we didn’t eat them <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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