Don't worry if you manage to be in July-August at the dacha only during week-end, and cucumbers in 5-6 days outgrow. Make of large fruits of preparation. Salad in bank will turn out gentle, and marinated circles large cucumbers won't concede to taste to the small fellows.
Salad for the winter from cucumbers with fennel
Collect fruits, wash up them. If you were absent long enough, and cucumbers became absolutely big, then clean off from them a firm thin skin. Prepare all necessary ingredients:
- 3 kg of cucumbers;
- 10-12 branches of fennel; - 450 g of onions; - 16 tablespoons of vegetable oil;
- 2 tablespoons of salt; - 4 tablespoons of granulated sugar; - 7 tablespoons of 9% of vinegar.
Continue to be engaged in preparation of the outgrown zelents. Cut everyone in half and crush in the form of half rings. In the same way cut a bulb. Only at first clean them from a peel and wash out. By means of a sharp knife small crumble fennel. Pour salt, sugar into a pan or a bowl in which you laid out all these vegetables and fennel, pour in vegetable oil and vinegar, mix. After that all ingredients need to allow to infuse 4 hours. This time will be enough with interest to prepare banks and covers. Wash up them properly. Sterilize banks over steam of 5-7 minutes, and lower covers in the boiling water for 3 minutes. Take small banks, best of all I will approach 700-gram. After 4 hours lay out cucumbers salad in a pan, put it on fire. After its contents begin to boil, let's it boil 5-6 minutes. Spread out salad in the prepared banks, roll up. Turn banks on a table, wrap up with the newspaper, and then a blanket. Such preparation is well stored not only on cold, but also at the room temperature. But long salad will be allowed to stay it hardly. It turns out so tasty, gentle that after the first can often open following.
Pickling
If you love marinated cucumbers, then the following recipe for you. Take it:2 of kg of cucumbers; - 1 l of water; - 3.5 tablespoons of sugar; - 1.5 tablespoons of salt; - 4-5 branches of parsley; - 100 g of vinegar concentration of 9%;-2 leaves of horse-radish; - 12 bell peppers. Carefully wash up, and then cut fruits on circles that they well accommodated in bank. Their width – 3-4 cm. Spread out in warm sterile glass jars. Make marinade. For this purpose lay out and pour in all ingredients, except vinegar, in a pan. Let's them begin to boil. Fill in the cut zelenets. Leave them in such look for 25-30 minutes. Merge marinade in a pan again, bring to the boil, add vinegar. Pour a hot brine on banks, a zakuporta their screw covers or roll up iron. Leave in the turned look in a blanket for day. After that canned food from the outgrown cucumbers is ready. Move away them to the cool place or you store houses on a mezzanine.