Koolickles A Southern Comfort

I remember salt pickles too.

Sounds great. I love pickles- all kinds

Yum!!

For anyone who saw last years Feasting on Asphalt - The River Run with Alton Brown, you saw him try a Koolickle. The book is out now and the recipe is in it. It is similar to the one here. I can't wait to try them. I am not big on pickles but these sound awfully interesting and Alton actually liked them, altho' he didn't think he would. He is a southern boy (from Georgia) and he didn't even know about them until he went into the lunch counter place and saw them.

I love pickles

They are really good with tuna salad, egg salad, mustard potato salad, deviled eggs... but serve them on the side.... if you put them into the salad they will make it all pink and strange looking.... and the juice will stain... so keep it off your clothing....

I think koolickles are not commonly made much anymore.....

Angel

My daughter would probably like these, thanks for haring.

neverin all my life have I heard bout this..

interesting!

This is a new one for me. Sounds good.

I like pickles. But, this recipe sound gross!

New to me, too.

Adele.... make the pickles first and let them cure... then turn them into koolickles....

Angela... they do sound strange, I know... but then so does putting salt, vinegar, dill weed boiling water and cucumbers in a jar and leaving them on a shelf for a couple of months before eating... that is how a pickle is made....

Koolickles taste kind of like sweet gherkin with a wild cherry tang..... not everyone likes them.... but they taste much better than they sound... or look for that matter....

Ya'll try em and report back to us....

Angel

I agree does sound strange , would have to give it a try. Want to send me one?

I don't know

Since I'm extremely cautious with sugar, they just don't sound worth the sugar investment. I'll save my tiny sugar allowance for something more appealing, like butter pecan ice cream.

You could use splenda..... and just put a pickle or two in a zipper bag with the brine and koolaide and sugar so you don't make a whole jar.... That way you could just have a couple to sample.... or Wait until there are only a couple of pickles left in the jar... as long as the brine covers the pickles you will get good koolickles...

Angel

ever have fried pickles?

Oh yes... we are serving them at the Cafe now.... Go help yourself....

Angel

yum

That sounds really interesting. I don't like sweet pickles, but my mom adores them. So I will be passing this along to her. It's easy enough that my 11 year old can help her make them, which will thrill him since he loves making things in the kitchen. Thanks for sharing. Peace

Hmm this I gotta try!

You must be from Texas! No one else remembers these!

Never heard of these ever! Nor fried pickles! Too weird but I think I have to try them.

Yummy!

I really do love a good dill.....
this sounds really interesting, thanks Angel

Nice

I was a little worried there at first as I do not like cherry's but I do like cherry koolaid so perhaps I will give this one a try.

never heard about these
but i will be sure to try them

Fascinating!! But odd! I may have to try them! Thanks!

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thanks for sharing :)

I never heard of that before, thanks!

nice recipe - not sure I want to try it yet

They sound good !!

my favorite comfort food has got to be hands down pasta or potatoe salad. today i had potatoe pot pie with turkey in it and potatoe salad for dinner. it was very good and delicious.

yummy

I live in the south and I've never heard of this... weird.

clarification...those are Fried DILL Pickles, folks. I've lived here all my life (now 45) and only heard about the koolickles a couple years back. Believe me, if these were 'traditional' in any way, I would've heard about them long since....on the other hand, I was first offered fried dill pickles at the ripe old age of three, when my grandparents took us to the fish camp for all we could eat (whole family, about 23 of us at that point).

I was given my first koolickle by our cook... a woman of unknown age... who had married her husband at the age of 15 by jumping over a broomstick with him.... they had built their cabin with their own hands and as time went on, produced 15 children.... Eventually she came and cooked for my family and cared for my baby sisters.....

I had seen koolickles before.... a gallon jar of them sat on the counter of the store across the way from the cotton gin and when the mule drivers came in with wagons of cotton to be ginned they frequently ate a koolickle while they watered their mules and waited for their cotton.... The bright red koolickes were a real standout in the air that was full of tiny white tufts of cotton fibers flying around in the wind and the black, greasy smoke from the smoldering piles of cottonseeds... Back then they had not found uses for the seeds and they were just piled up and burned after they were ginned out of the cotton.... of course the farmers kept back some of the best seed to plant the next year... but there was always so much left...

But I am digressing.... koolickles sat on the counter next to the pickled eggs and pigs feet.... all in big gallon jars.... We did not buy food from the public jars.... We put up our own pickles and one day our cook made koolickles for us... out of a quart jar of our own dill pickles...

She also taught me to fry those dills... and chicken and chicken livers and steak and peppers and onions and yams and pies and most anything else she could lay hands on and drop in a pan of sizzling lard... lol... From her I learned how to fling a drop of water into the oil and tell by the musical quality of the sizzle if the lard was at the right temperature to fry up everything crisp and non greasy.... If it didn't hit just the right note.... your food would be soggy or greasy... or too brown on the outside and raw in the middle...

She also taught me how to shop for a dress length from the flour and meal sacks.... the sacks were made of a calico like fabric and if you shopped carefully you could get enough matching or co-ordinating cloth to make your clothes.... You went through a lot of flour when you made all your biscuits and cornbread... shortbreads... cakes,,, pies... pancakes... from scratch... everyday.... Of course, you could always use the odd pieces for quilts or rag rugs...

But I am nattering....

Have a magical day.....

Angel

Never heard of anything like it. It sound good though

thanks