I like complicated

These are Dave’s words. You should know that we tried to make relish and failed miserably. We don’t have any pictures to show for it. Anyways, here is the story. We had a bunch of cucumbers that were ready from our garden all at once. The recipe called for about 4.5 pounds of cukes and we had about 3 pounds. We thought this would be no big deal and we would just tweak the recipe. However, Renee a canning cookbook which insisted that you not decrease the amount of salt in a recipe even if you decrease the cukes. We shredded our precious cucumbers and added onion. Then we added tons of salt to the relish, along with sugar and cinnamon. It tasted a bit salty but otherwise was fine. The next step was to cook the mixture. Something wild and chemical must have happened in that pot on that stove on the way to relish because the next time we tasted the relish it was horribly salty. Way way WAY too salty. Ew, horrible, we shudder at the memory. Renee was ready to pitch it but dave wasn’t going to give up so easily. He instructed that sugar be added. We tasted again. This time the result were so revolting the hideous brew was spit into the sink. The horror! Our lovely baby cucumbers, the first produce we grew with our own hands – destroyed. Turns out Renee was reading a page about pickles and the whole thing was a misunderstanding.