Pickled cucumber

Dill pickles

Pickled cucumbers are cucumbers preserved either by lactic fermentation, usually in brine, or by acidification in vinegar.

Fermented

In brine

Dill pickles

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  A deli pickle (USA)
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  A dill pickle on a fork (Poland)
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  Dill pickles (Ukraine)
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  A kosher dill pickle cut into spears (USA)

Pickling

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  Ingredients: cucumbers, dill, garlic, horseradish, bay leaves, mustard seeds, coarse salt (Poland)
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  Cucumbers pickled in a ceramic pot (Poland)
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  Cucumbers pickled in a ceramic pot (Poland)
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  Cucumbers pickled in a glass jar (Russia)
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  Cucumbers pickled in glass jars (Poland)
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  Cucumbers pickled in glass jars (Poland)
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  Cucumbers pickled in glass jars (Hungary)
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  A jar of Spreewald gherkins (Germany)
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  Dill pickles with visible dill (Poland)
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  Dill pickles (Poland)
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  Dill pickles (Czech Rep.)

Serving

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  Dill pickles in a glass bowl (Poland)
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  A platter of dill pickles (Poland)
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  A plate of dill pickles (Poland)
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  Dill pickles with sausages and bread (Poland)
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  Dill pickles with cold cuts (Poland)
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  Dill pickles rolled up with herring fillets (Poland)
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  Dill pickles rolled up with ham (USA)
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  Breaded pickles (USA)
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  Breaded pickles (USA)

Pickle soup

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  A ladle of pickle soup (Poland)
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  A bowl of pickle soup (Poland)
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  A bowl of pickle soup with sour cream (Ukraine)
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  A bowl of pickle soup (Russia)
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  A bowl of Leningrad-style pickle soup (Russia)

Half-sour pickles

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  A pot of home-made half-sour pickles weighed down with a stone (Poland)
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  A jar of half-sour pickles (Poland)
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  A board of half-sour pickles (Poland)
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  A bowl of half-sour pickles (Ukraine)
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  Cross-section of a half-sour pickle (Poland)
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  Half-sour pickles paired with vodka (Poland)
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  Cucumbers and peppers pickled with pokeweed berries (Abkhazia)

Dry-pickled

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  Oikimchi (Korea)
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  Oikimchi (Korea)
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  Oikimchi (Korea)
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  Nukazuke – cucumber, carrot and eggplant pickled in rice bran (Japan)

Vinegar-pickled

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  A jar of home-made pickles (Poland)
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  A jar of sliced pickles (Sweden)
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  A bowl of pickles (Czech Rep.)
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  A jar and a plate of pickles (USA)
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  Jars of sweet pickles (USA)
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  A jar of bread-and-butter pickles (USA)
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  Mustard pickles in a stoneware jar (Germany)
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  A plate of mustard pickles with visible mustard seeds (Germany)
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  A jar of pickled cucumbers and tomatoes (Transnistria)

Gherkins

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  A gherkin
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  Pickled gherkins (Spain)
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  Gherkins with red pepper (Spain)

Serving

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  Pickles in skewered hors d'oeuvres (Spain)
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  Pickled cucumbers and turnips (Turkey)
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  Pickles as a side to labskaus (Germany)
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  Pickle spears as a side to weckewerk (Germany)
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  Vegan cupcakes with icecream and sweet pickles (USA)
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  Sliced pickles in a sandwich
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  Sliced pickles in a hot dog
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  A dill pickle spear and bright-green sweet pickle relish in a Chicago-style hot dog (USA)
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  Pickle relish (Sweden)
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  Pickled cucumbers among other mixed pickles (USA)
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  Chopped pickles as an ingredient of tartar sauce, served with fried food

Miscellaneous

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  Still life by an unknown painter (Italy, 17th cent.)
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  Caricature of Joseph Bonaparte (Spain, between 1808 and 1813)
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  Sheet music cover for Charles L. Johnson's ragtime piece "Dill Pickles" (USA, 1906)
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  High diver Beatrice Kyle enjoying a pickle while sitting on a fire engine wheel (USA, 1924)
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  Christmas pickle (Germany)
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  Christmas pickle (Germany)
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  Logo of the Gurken-Radweg cycling route (Germany)
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  A man kissing a pickle-costumed mascot
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  A man trying to open a jar of pickles

See also

• Pickled food
• Pickling cucumber