Bread and butter pickle - simple recipe please

[PatsyMFagan Profile]

After watching Matt Tebbutt swiftly make this as a side to a dish he was making on Saturday Kitchen the other week, I thought I should make some as I had a whole cucumber lurking in the fridge ...

However couldn't find a simple recipe - perhaps I looked in the wrong place, so then I thought of asking here:

thank you

[karadekoolaid Profile]

Here´s the one I´ve used for years (which was also on the supermarket shelves over here):
1 kg cucumbers
500 gms sugar
160 gms red pepper
300 gms onion
205 gms white wine vinegar
2 tsps yello mustard seeds
1/4 tsp celery seed
Pinch clove powder
Pinch hot chile powder
1/4 tsp turmeric
15 gms salt

Cut the cucumbers into small dice, sprinkle with the salt and leave to drain for at least 6 hours, or overnight. If you want to remove the seeds, do so. Place in a large pan along the the sugar, the finely diced red pepper and onion, the vinegar and all the spices. Bring to a boil then lower to medium. Cook for about 30-40 minutes, or until the pickle thickens.
After marinating the cucumber, briefly run under the tap to remove any excess salt. Put into sterilised jars and seal.
This recipe makes about 6 200cc jars.

[PatsyMFagan Profile]

oooh, thanks KKA

[scullion Profile]

bread and butter pickle? or a pickle to use with bread and butter? (I've just looked it up).
this is my sweet cucumber pickle/relish (i usually use a red pepper for colour contrast):

Sweet cucumber pickle

2lb cucumber
1 large green pepper
2 large onions
2 oz salt

½ pt cider or wine vinegar
8 oz soft brown sugar
½ tsp ground turmeric
¼ tsp ground cloves
½ tsp celery seeds
1 dsp mustard seeds


Wash cucumber but do not peel.
Peel onions.
De-seed pepper.

Thinly slice all prepared vegetables and place in a large bowl.
Add salt and mix well.
Cover and leave to stand for at least 3 hours.
Rinse vegetables well, in a colander, under running, cold water.
Squeeze out as much liquid as possible.

Place in a large pan, add vinegar (I usually use ordinary white distilled vinegar) and bring to the boil.
Simmer until vegetables are soft, about 20 mins (well, I found it a bit longer).

Add sugar and spices to the pan, stir to dissolve and boil for a further 10 mins.

Pour hot pickle into hot, sterilized jars and cap immediately with sterilized lids.

it's very similar to clive's (but has no chilli).

i don't have a recipe for a pickle made with bread and butter!

[Stokey Sue Profile]

That’s not at all what I understand by bread and butter pickles which are fairly crisp sliced cucumbers, similar to burger gherkins

More like this, which I haven’t made but have eaten, a friend is a huge Pam the Jam fan, and this is Pam’s recipe
https://accumulate.org.uk/community-jam ... am-corbin/

I still have a jar of scullion’s cucumber relish to use up, it’s delicious but different

[Earthmaiden Profile]

I hadn't heard of Bread & Butter pickles before buying at a stall at Bath Christmas market. It was delicious - more as Sue describes. Sweet, lots of thin cucumber slices and seeds in a sweet pickle juice. No chilli. There seem to be lots of very similar recipes online .

I assumed it was something traditional to eat with bread and butter but Wiki suggests the original family who made it traded it for bread and butter.

[PatsyMFagan Profile]

Oooh, plenty of inspiration there ....

[Suffs Profile]

I’d not heard of Bread & Butter Pickle until the last few years, but when I discovered it I thought it was the same as this https://www.allotment-garden.org/recipe ... le-recipe/ We always called it Mixed Pickle and it always had cauliflower florets in ... they were my favourite bit

[Seatallan Profile]

bread and butter pickle? or a pickle to use with bread and butter? (I've just looked it up).
this is my sweet cucumber pickle/relish (i usually use a red pepper for colour contrast):

Sweet cucumber pickle

2lb cucumber
1 large green pepper
2 large onions
2 oz salt

½ pt cider or wine vinegar
8 oz soft brown sugar
½ tsp ground turmeric
¼ tsp ground cloves
½ tsp celery seeds
1 dsp mustard seeds


Wash cucumber but do not peel.
Peel onions.
De-seed pepper.

Thinly slice all prepared vegetables and place in a large bowl.
Add salt and mix well.
Cover and leave to stand for at least 3 hours.
Rinse vegetables well, in a colander, under running, cold water.
Squeeze out as much liquid as possible.

Place in a large pan, add vinegar (I usually use ordinary white distilled vinegar) and bring to the boil.
Simmer until vegetables are soft, about 20 mins (well, I found it a bit longer).

Add sugar and spices to the pan, stir to dissolve and boil for a further 10 mins.

Pour hot pickle into hot, sterilized jars and cap immediately with sterilized lids.

it's very similar to clive's (but has no chilli).

i don't have a recipe for a pickle made with bread and butter!

Scully, I make your pickle very often. Indeed, I've just made a batch to sell at our pending village virtual Christmas market. I just love it!

[PatsyMFagan Profile]

I went with the recipe supplied by StokeySue in the end. I had most of the ingredients apart from celery seed (subbed celery salt) and Dill seed (subbed Fennel). It was very easy and I don't think the subs were that detrimental .

[PatsyMFagan Profile]

I went with the recipe supplied by StokeySue in the end. I had most of the ingredients apart from celery seed (subbed celery salt) and Dill seed (subbed Fennel). It was very easy and I don't think the subs were that detrimental .

[Pampy Profile]

This is the write up on the BBC Food site on with Pam Corbin's recipe

This crisp, sweet-and-sour cucumber pickle picked up its nickname ‘bread and butter pickles’ during the Great Depression years in America in the 1930s. Pickles were low-cost and a cheerful way to brighten up the monotony of eating bread and butter every day. It’s delicious with many foods – not just bread and butter. Vary the spice mix to your tastes, but do measure the turmeric carefully; too much will flood the pickle with yellow and overwhelm the other spices.