Quick recipe of marinade for hostesses
If you do not have extra time to spend on cooking fuss with cooking a complex recipe, this marinade is for you. Soak cucumbers for two hours – to let it lie in water while you prepare the marinade. Take 1 liter of water, 1 tablespoon sugar, 2 tablespoons of salt, 2-3 peas of allspice, 1-2 pieces of cloves and Bay leaf, 3 leaf currant, 2-3 umbrella of dill and as many cloves of garlic.
If you can cucumbers in a quart jar, add the marinade ½ teaspoon of citric acid.
After cooking the marinade for cucumbers, you need to remove vegetables from water, pour boiling water and let them cool. Then place in clean glass jars, cover with marinade, securely sealed can lids and wrap with a warm blanket. After the cucumber has cooled completely, place them in a cool dark place where they will be stored until winter. Periodically check the preservation on the subject swelling, or other undesirable effects.
Spicy marinade with oak leaves and cherries
To cook a spicy marinade, take a three-liter jar strong young cucumbers (size 6-7 cm) at the 3-4 leaf cherry, currant, oak and horseradish, 2-3 cloves of garlic, 1-2 umbrella dill, red chili pepper (to taste) and 3 tablespoons of salt. Place in a jar with garlic, dill, leaves of oak, cherry and currant, horseradish and pepper. Pour salt, removing the excess salt with a knife slide a tablespoon, and gently lay the cucumbers, the Gulf all the ingredients with water from the tap and closing the jar nylon cover. Leave it to stand for two days so the cucumbers are well sacrilice, and remember, if in the process of salting they will begin to foam, it does not matter, but it is a valid phenomenon.
When using this marinade recipe, glass jars for canning to sterilize there is no need.
Two days later, drain the brine from the jar into a saucepan and boil it for 2-5 minutes. Hot marinade pour back into the jar with cucumbers so that it completely covered them. If the marinade is not enough, add to it boiling water. Cover the jar with metal or nylon cover and place conservation in a basement or cellar. Using this recipe for a spicy marinade, you will prepare great crispy cucumbers in the winter that are suitable to the second dish and to the traditional Russian alcohol drink.
