Cucumbers and pickles: what differences?

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The former are prominently featured in our summer salads, the latter are among the essential condiments of French cuisine: what is the difference cucumber pickle?

Gardeners will laugh at me - but children sometimes ask the question, hence the subject of this article!

Cucumbers and Pickles: What are the differences?

So, yes, cucumbers and pickles are the fruits of the same plant (cucumis sativus), a creeping annual herb of the Cucurbitaceae family.

Picked when they are still small, the fruits of this plant are the pickles that are then prepared with vinegar and herbs to preserve them and use them to decorate our dishes all the time. year. Picked at maturity, they give cucumbers.

In the days of our ancestors, it was necessary to let the cucumbers drain before eating them, so that they get rid of their bitterness. To this end, they were cut into slices, sprinkled with salt and thus left time to "return their water" (about a quarter of an hour). Once rinsed, they could be eaten.

This practice is no longer useful today as milder flavored varieties of cucumbers have been developed, paving the way for more novel uses in the kitchen - such as smoothies and vegetable juice.