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Easy refrigerator dill pickles start with fresh pickling cucumbers, which are widely available at farmers markets in late summer. [Gretchen McKay/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]

Old-fashioned bread and butter pickles are flavored with brown sugar and onion, with turmeric adding a lovely golden hue. [Gretchen McKay/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]

Pickled peaches are easy to make and will add a surprising, summery tang to ice cream or pound cake. [Gretchen McKay/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]

Pickled peaches are easy to make and will add a surprising, summery tang to ice cream or pound cake. [Gretchen McKay/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]

Fast, easy recipes aren’t confined to cucumbers

Adoration of pickles amid ambivalence toward cucumbers may seem a strange contradiction.

Most of my adult years, however,…