I think I have finally entered the secret brotherhood of homemade cornichon and gherkin makers. My specific goal was not sweet gherkins (which are the right size but way too sweet) or just small versions of a dill pickle but what I wanted is the intensely sour french cornichon that graces my favourite protein delivery [...]
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Recipe Search: Cornichons
I remember seeing a blog post last summer that featured perhaps the most hardcore pickling recipe I have ever come across. It was for cornichons–the roughly-equivalent French version of the Anglo-Indian gherkins. I may be romaticising it slightly but I seem to remember this particular method calling for bathing the cucumbers in pure acid (or [...]
