Spicy Dill Pickles - Feast Your Eyes

by Alexa Weibel, Posted Sep 29th 2009 @ 10:00AM

Photo: you can count on me, Flickr.

National Pickle Day may yet be a couple of months away, but now's the time to start perfecting your technique, as did Flickr user "You Can Count on Me." Though the pickles themselves aren't even pictured, their zingy brine looks promising, with masses of fiery floating peppercorns and sprigs of dill.

Treasured for their tangy flavor alone, pickles boast both a historic background and surprising health benefits. Vitamin-C rich pickles were packed on Christopher Columbus's fateful voyage to help the seamen fight scurvy -- and actually take their name from the ship's stocker, Amerigo Vespucci. Today, the fermented fruits are considered extra nutritious for allowing bacteria the time to create additional vitamins and are in fact more easily digested than their non-treated counterparts. So get pickling!

Check out more pickle trivia at the Science of Pickles and try the pictured recipe from blog Everybody Likes Sandwiches.

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Filed Under: Feast Your Eyes
Tags: dill pickles, DillPickles, everybody likes sandwiches, EverybodyLikesSandwiches, fermentation, homemade pickles, HomemadePickles, national pickle day, NationalPickleDay, pickle trivia, PickleTrivia, pickling, spicy sour dill pickles, SpicySourDillPickles

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9-29-2009 @3:52PM Elizah Leigh said... I will definitely try your recipe out. I've become a huge fan of this one http://bit.ly/RAU4w based on the fact that it is hand drawn and illustrated by cartoonist Lucy Knisley, but I'm craving a little spice in my life now :)
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