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cornichons (big ones)


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we seem to have erroneously planted cornichons this year. I just checked and at first I thought they were cucumbers...but they are a bit spiky and some almost the size of a small cucumber.
Unfortunately the boss doesn't like them in the pickled form...(I do)..has anyone got any ideas, including pickling for me to avoid wasting them? I'm happy to preserve them.

PS we don't like cucumbers either - you may wonder what we thought we were planting. So do I......
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Mmm, I've grown them on purpose, they're finer textured than English gherkins, some of them anyway, but I'd pick them very tiny... and my attempts at pickling them came out like English pickled gherkins, the commercial ones are pasteurised rather than pickled in just vinegar, they are very good in piccalilli or mixed pickles; you can just about get away with a few in ratatouille... chickens love them.
Hope someone has a better solution but... I'd be very dubious unless they swear blind they don't like gherkins!
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