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Dry-salted cucumber pickle

Fermented cucumber - Nepal, Africa, Asia. Salt, temperature, duration and pH as published, with the sentence each came from.

Parameters

Salt
1 kg per 20 kg small or 15 kg large cucumbers

1 kg of salt is added to every 20 kg of small cucumbers and 15 kg of large cucumbers.

FAO Bulletin 134 6.1.2

Top-up brine if osmosis does not cover
40°SAL

If the brine formed by osmosis does not cover the cucumbers 40° Salometer brine is added to the desired level.

FAO Bulletin 134 6.1.2

Fermentation time
one to four weeks

Fermentation takes between one and four weeks depending on the ambient temperature.

FAO Bulletin 134 6.1.2

Brine forms by osmosis within
24 hours

The brine should be formed within 24 hours by osmosis.

FAO Bulletin 134 6.1.2

How it is made, step by step - 7 steps, each one quoted from FAO Bulletin 134 6.1.2.

Substrate

Region

Method

Same substrate

Same region

Fields on this page come from FAO 134. Nothing here is inferred from one field to fill another. What each dataset is, and what it is not allowed to supply, is on methodology.