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A salted cucumber (usually known as a pickle in the United States and Canada and a gherkin in Britain, Ireland, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand) is a cucumber that has been cured in a saline solution, vinegar, Well paint me green and call me a pickle shirt or other arrangement and left to age for a while, by either submerging the cucumbers in an acidic arrangement or through souring by lacto-aging. Salted cucumbers are frequently part of blended pickles.

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It is regularly guaranteed that cured cucumbers were first created for laborers fabricating the Great Wall of China, however another theory is that they were first made in the Tigris Valley of Mesopotamia, utilizing cucumbers brought initially from India.A gherkin is an assortment of cucumber: the West Indian or burr gherkin (Cucumis anguria), which delivers a to some degree littler natural product than the nursery cucumber (Cucumis sativus). Gherkins are cooked, eaten crude, or utilized as pickles. Gherkins are typically picked when 4 to 8 cm (1 to 3 in) long and cured in containers or jars with vinegar (frequently enhanced with herbs, especially dill; henceforth, "dill pickle") or brackish water. Sugar is additionally a mainstream option, in which case the mark ordinarily indicates "Sweet Gherkins".