Pickles are an indispensable attribute of a festive table, for example, New Year's. Not all housewives get this dish right. To pickle delicious cucumbers, you must first choose the right variety.
How to choose the right cucumbers
Pickling cucumbers have common characteristics. The skin is thin, but durable, dark, with tubercles and black spines. The pulp is dense, without voids, the seeds are small and occupy no more than 20% of the volume. The length of the fruit is up to 10 cm, there is no bitterness in the taste.
The choice of specific varieties is rather a matter of personal preference. Those that meet the specified criteria are suitable. The fruits must be fresh, without yellowness or lethargy.
Top 10 varieties for pickling
The most popular varieties of cucumbers that guarantee results. Easy to get in stores or from summer residents. The pickles will be crispy and full of flavor.
fontanel
Thick, versatile barrel-shaped fruits. The spikes are black and long, which can cause some inconvenience when harvesting. But this variety is easy to get. The fontanel is stored longer than 70% of pickled cucumbers, and fruits picked too late retain their size.
Lilliputian
A self-pollinating gherkin, the fruits of which, after sitting out, almost do not increase in size and do not turn yellow. Because of this, it is popular among summer residents, so buying such cucumbers will not be difficult.Easy to distinguish from other varieties: the midgets are wide and dark at the base, and narrow and light at the top. Their thorns are white, and their shelf life is increased.
Kurazh
Slightly curved fruits up to 15 cm in size are suitable only for barrels or jars of at least 5 liters. The skin is uniformly yellowish-green with large tubercles. The flesh is crispy and free of voids.
Zhuravlenok
A hybrid with a characteristic skin: thin, dark, covered with long black thorns. Elongated fruits with large tubercles and wide stripes. It has the most delicious flesh, tender and sweet.
German
This cucumber has both a gradient and stripes in color. The tubercles are medium, but there are a lot of them. German is a variety with sweet tasty flesh and small thorns. Tom Thumb
A gherkin with a thickening in the middle, white spines and faint stripes. The most aromatic cucumbers with an attractive appearance. They bear fruit abundantly and rarely get sick, so you can buy them easily and inexpensively.
Parisian gherkin
Despite the name, this is not a gherkin. Thick, slightly curved fruits with a gradient color, darker at the base. The tastiest of them are small, young ones.
Nezhinsky
An oblong cucumber with neat spines. A Ukrainian variety that is so good that it became the ancestor of an extensive branch of pickling varieties. They are not inferior to the original, so you can use any of this family: Nezhinsky 12, Nezhinsky Kubani, Novy Nezhinsky, Nezhinka and others. The most popular pickling cucumber in the USSR, for many - the taste of childhood.
Zozulya
Long vegetables with faint stripes and large tubercles. They can be bitter, so you should buy them from a trusted seller. But properly grown zozulya are a table decoration.
PicklingIt is easy to distinguish from other varieties: at the base, Lilliputians are wide and dark, and the top is narrow and light. Their spines are white and their shelf life is increased.
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