.this may sound very stupid.but a recipe for "cucumber relish".does that mean your average salad cucumber.or is it referring to courgettes. Very new to preserving-but have an influx of good old normal cucumbers.any suggestions greatly appreciated.
cgvl,
Jan 19, 5:37am
its your average cucumber. I have one that uses cucumbers and its delish.
avs24,
Jan 19, 5:41am
oh thanks for that will start goggling some recipes now.
lythande1,
Jan 19, 5:56am
Courgettes are green on the outside and long, but that's where the resemblance (and taste) stops. Not the same thing at all.
uli,
Jan 19, 8:11am
What is an "average" cucumber!
1buzemum,
Jan 19, 9:17am
My kids get grumpy when I don't have this in the cupboard! Cucumber Relish. 2 lb Apples peeled and grated 3 lb onions cut in half and sliced 2 lb sugar 3 lb Cucumber grated (seeds and all I do skin of telegraph aswell but peel normal ones) 1 heaped tsp pepper salt to taste 4 Cup Vinegar 1 dsp curry powder 1 TBSP Turmeric
cook apple in vinegar when cooked add sugar, pepper, salt and slice onion, cook till onion is soft. add grated cucumber and boil 5 min, add curry and Turmeric. Thicken with flour and put into jars.
avs24,
Jan 20, 5:24am
Thank you very much-sounds delicious.will make some tomorrow! Kind regards
uli,
Jan 20, 5:31am
Isn't the flour going to ferment! Or are you "bottling" it - as in cooking in the jars!
uli,
Jan 20, 5:32am
And what is a "normal" cucumber as opposed to a "telegraph" one!
sclaredy_cat,
Jan 21, 1:08am
The recipe I have been using for 20+ years is also thickened with flour.
korbo,
Jan 21, 2:12am
I always use ordinary flour to thicken relish and chutney. now and then I will use cornflour.never had any go mouldy in my 30 odd years of preserving. poster #6, will try your recipe, have made similar but not with apples, crushed pineapple instead.
nauru,
Jan 21, 8:43am
I use flour to thicken relishes and chutneys too as did my MIL and I haven't had any problems in over 40 years of preserving.
uli,
Jan 21, 8:52am
Thanks for that anecdotal evidence. I have never thickened anything that I bottled with flour or cornflour, it just sounded as if it would be a certain recipe for disaster to me. obviously it is not.
sclaredy_cat,
Jan 21, 11:06pm
You're welcome - we were all newbies once ;)
olwen,
Jan 21, 11:22pm
The vinegar will preserve it
1buzemum,
Jan 30, 7:16am
Hee hee I wrote "Normal" because someone else made same reference I mean the dark green thick skinned ones, the ones you peel. I don't peel telegraph cucumbers.
The very old recipe said to use flour and I never questioned it, it did say double turmeric but I adapted and kids like the quantity I origionally stated. I have sometimes accidently over thickened the relish and the only problem I found was the kids used bigger dollops so my batch didn't last the whole year.
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