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1. No.17Good Food Award winner, 2026Photo: Know Your Roots Pickles

   Sweet and hot

   Blazin' Bread 'n' Butter Pickles

   From Know Your Roots Pickles · Longmont, Colorado

   Vinegar●●●Very hot

   A small Colorado maker whose bread 'n' butter pickles won a 2026 Good Food Award. The Blazin' version adds habanero.

   Bread and butter pickles with a fire under them. Sweet first, then the habanero shows up and stays.

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   Chef's quick version

   Habanero bread 'n' butters

   25 min, plus 1 hour salting, then 1 day · makes 1 quart · The classic sweet brine with onion and celery seed, plus a habanero. Halve the habanero for less heat.

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   You need

   • 1½ lb (680 g) Kirby cucumbers, sliced ¼ inch
   • 1 small onion, thinly sliced
   • 1 tbsp kosher salt
   • 1 cup (240 ml) apple cider vinegar
   • ⅔ cup (130 g) brown sugar
   • 1 tsp mustard seeds
   • ½ tsp celery seeds
   • ¼ tsp ground turmeric
   • 1 habanero, thinly sliced

   How to make it

   1. Toss the cucumbers and onion with the salt and a handful of ice; leave 1 hour, then drain and rinse.
   2. Boil the vinegar, sugar, mustard, celery seeds, turmeric and habanero.
   3. Add the cucumbers and onion, bring just back to a simmer, then turn off the heat.
   4. Spoon into a jar with the brine. Cool, close and refrigerate. Ready the next day.

   Chef's own quick version, in our words. It isn't Know Your Roots Pickles's recipe: for the real thing, order the jar.

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