That pickled cucumbers were tasty and crunchy, it is important to follow a compounding of conservation of vegetables strictly. And soaking of fruits before salting - an important part of many compoundings.
Cucumbers are salted by many hostesses, and there is no wonder, this rather simple procedure helps to keep cucumbers for all cold season. Skilled hostesses already developed for themselves the most suitable recipe, know about many nuances of the procedure, and here hostesses who for the first time decided to preserve cucumbers, often face the problems concerning ignorance as how to do. For example, one of the most asked questions - whether it is necessary to soak cucumbers in water before salting?
To answer it, it is necessary to know for what fruits in general are soaked that the procedure gives. So, having placed cucumbers in cold water, vegetables begin to absorb it at once, and later certain time each fruit incorporates the maximum quantity of water. If to salt such cucumbers, then having stood even several months, they will be dense, crunchy and elastic. However in certain cases soaking of cucumbers - waste of time. The fact is that just broken cucumbers don't need soaking, it is possible to preserve them right after washing. Cucumbers it is better to wet the lain-down several days before salting in water, and the longer passed time from collecting, the has longer to the procedure, in certain cases lasts - about one day.
Carry out the procedure of soaking or not, each hostess for herself solves. However if cucumbers are bought in shop or in the market, at the same time the hostess doesn't know when fruits were broken, then it is better not to neglect the procedure. Then in winter time it will be possible to regale on crunchy zelenets, but not pulpy fruits with emptiness inside.