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Our best cucumber pickles ideas - 4 recipes

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Ingredients

  • 1 whole duck breast
  • 1 sheet puff pastry
  • 3-4 slices ham
  • 3-4  tbsp raspberry jam
  • 3- 4 slices Muenster cheese

Method

  1. Fry the duck breast in a pan until medium rare (or your preference) and browned on the outside.
  2. Roll out a sheet of puff pastry, and layer the ham slices  in the middle.
  3. Spread the raspberry jam over the ham slices, and follow with the Muenster cheese, and the duck breast.
  4. Moisten the sides of the pastry with water, then fold to enclose the duck. 
  5. Brush the pastry with the egg yolk, then score lightly with a knife. 
  6. Bake for 10 minutes at 464°F (until the cheese is melted and the pastry is golden brown)
  7. Serve, and enjoy! 

Top rated Cucumber pickles recipes

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Combine cucumbers and peppers and onions in a large non-metalic pot and mix in salt and ice cubes

  • 10 cups thinly sliced unpeeled cucumbers
  • 1 green bell pepper chopped
  • 1 red bell pepper chopped
  • 3 large white onions thinly sliced
  • 1/3 cup pickling salt(coarse salt)
  • 4 trays ice cubes
  • 3 cups white vinegar
  • 4 cups white sugar
  • 11/2 tsp each turmeric,celery seed, and mustard seed
4.1/5 (8 Votes)

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Here is my grandpa's recipe for summertime pickles he always used to make after my grandparents would get back from

  • 12 pickling cucumbers
  • 2 cups water
  • 1 3/4 cups distilled white vinegar
  • 1 1/2 cups packed coarsely chopped fresh dill
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 8 garlic cloves, chopped
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons coarse salt
  • 1 tablespoon pickling spice
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons dill seeds
  • 1/2 teaspoon dried crushed red pepper
3.6/5 (10 Votes)

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Combine water, vinegar, and salt

  • 24 to 30 cucumbers
  • 1 part vinegar
  • 3 parts water
  • 4 tablespoons salt
  • dill seasonings
  • 3 to 6 garlic cloves
4/5 (5 Votes)

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This recipe comes from my grandmother's aunt, Oteen

  • 1 gallon thin sliced cucumbers
  • 8 small white onions
  • half cup salt
  • 5 cups sugar
  • 5 cups vinegar
  • one and a half tsp turmeric
  • half tsp ground cloves
  • 1 tsp celery seed
  • quarter tsp ginger
  • quarter tsp allspice
3.3/5 (3 Votes)

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Oteen's "Bread and Butter Pickles" bread and butter pickles