{"id":4181,"date":"2014-08-08T03:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T07:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=4181"},"modified":"2014-08-08T03:00:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T07:00:57","slug":"q-and-a-kohlrabi-and-bread-and-butter-pickles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2014\/08\/08\/q-and-a-kohlrabi-and-bread-and-butter-pickles\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: kohlrabi and bread and butter pickles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kohlrabi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I have kohlrabi coming out of my ears. Can I can them or would they be better frozen. I&#8217;m not sure what to do with them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Polly Miller<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Neshkoro, Wisconsin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can use kohlrabi in a pickle recipe, in place of cucumbers. But they really don&#8217;t can up nicely. I&#8217;d freeze the rest. One of our favorite kohlrabi recipes is diced in a cheese sauce. Mmmm. Or sliced on a salad. Darn, now I&#8217;m hungry! &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bread and butter pickles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I made your bread and butter pickle recipe. However, I did not rinse the cucumbers\/onion mixture after soaking them with the salt and ice. The taste seems salty to me. Should you rinse the cukes\/onions as the recipe only says to drain well? What about other recipes that use salt to remove excess water in pickles or summer squash?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Jacqueline Scott<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Nampa, Idaho<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t rinse my pickles, but I do kind of swish them around to make sure the salt is well mixed with the water. If you wish to rinse them, you certainly may. I don&#8217;t find my bread and butter pickles salty and as we don&#8217;t use much salt, I am quite sensitive to it. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kohlrabi I have kohlrabi coming out of my ears. Can I can them or would they be better frozen. I&#8217;m not sure what to do with them. Polly Miller Neshkoro, Wisconsin You can use kohlrabi in a pickle recipe, in place of cucumbers. But they really don&#8217;t can up nicely. I&#8217;d freeze the rest. One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}