Pickles and Preserves (4)

Homemade pickles and preserves: fermented tomatoes, cucumbers and cabbage, pickled plums and hot peppers. Old-school recipes that keep all winter.

Fermented pickles the old-fashioned way: cucumbers in salt brine with garlic, dill and horseradish leaves for 4 days, then canned in jars for winter.
Fermented tomatoes in jars with a salt brine, garlic, dill, horseradish and cherry leaves. No vinegar: 3 days on the windowsill, 2 weeks in the fridge.
Whole red hot peppers pickled Caucasian-style with garlic, cilantro, dill, mint and spices in a grape vinegar marinade. An easy preserve for winter.