Herbs & Spices

Different combinations of herbs and spices help create pickles with distinctive flavors, and experimenting with these elements is where you can make your mark as a pickler. As you gain confidence, alter recipes to suit your tastes. For instance, for recipes that call for chiles and other heat-producing ingredients, what’s spicy to one person’s palate is often mild to another’s. There is no right or wrong. Just remember to record your modifications so that when you hit on something you like, you can easily do it again. Coming off the vine, a cucumber is a cucumber. What you do with it from there makes your creations special, and herbs and spices are your allies in this process.