Pickles
are a delight to the taste buds and can add flavor to enhance the taste of even
the blandest of meals. Pickles, when prepared with freshly picked ingredients, will maintain a glorified place in your kitchen shelves.
The history of pickles
seems to be so old that it is almost untraceable. But the origin of the main
ingredient of pickles which is cucumber, can be traced back to India. Evidently,
pickling seems to have been started by our fore-fathers almost 4000 years back
to preserve food like vegetables and meat. Cucumber pickles were supposedly
first preserved and eaten around 2030 BC. Throughout history, there have been
mentions about the benefits of cucumber and pickled cucumbers, right from the
Bible to scholars and historians. In addition to being praised for their
excellent taste, they have been acclaimed to have many medicinal properties as
well.
Whatever
the history might be, the delight of pickles cannot be denied by anybody in the
modern times as well. Pickles still remain a favorite of every household and
likely to remain so for many more generations to come.
The below recipe gives
you an easy and uncomplicated way of preparing home-made pickles which is much
tastier and healthier; than the packaged variety bought from the super-market.
