Quick Pickling Recipies - anyone have one the really like. Tips are also appreciated.

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3. I hate to even bring this up, since I'm so vague on where I saw/heard it

but I'd swear I read or watched somewhere that you get added health benefits out of pickles that aren't heat treated or pasteurized. In most chain groceries, I think that basically means the 'clausen' brand, that's always sold cold, and has a short shelf life. I don't know how it applies, or even if it does, to other pickled vegetables, though. (My attempts at googling come up with a 'realpickles' web page that talks about probiotics and lactic acid, so maybe that's what the original story was talking about.)

Good luck with whatever you do, and let us know how it works. We do pickling off and on, depending upon how bountiful our cucumber crop is any given year, so I tried growing my own mustard seed a couple of years back. Easy to grow, but a pain in the butt to harvest by hand.