Stephanie Thurow

Garlic Scape Pickles

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Preparation info
  • Yield:

    1 quart

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Can It & Ferment It: More Than 75 Satisfying Small-Batch Canning and Fermentation Recipes for the Whole Year
Can It & Ferment It

By Stephanie Thurow

Published 2017

  • About

Fermented scapes are great, but I feel like a little of the garlic flavor is lost during both fermentation and water bath canning, so I like to add extra garlic. As with pickled scapes, fermented scapes are great on sandwiches, in salads, or used as a cocktail garnish.

Ingredients

  • 3 bundles thin scapes (thick ones tend to be chewy)
  • 1 clove garlic, crushed

Method

Wash the scapes and trim off the tough ends; typically, the bottom couple of inches. They tend to have a natural point of breakage, similar to asparagus. You can either leave the flower bloom on or trim it off; that is up to you. It will not affect the flavor one way or the other to leave the bloom on.

To pack the jars, you can either chop up the scapes into pieces or do as shown in my