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Becca wrote:
> Tara wrote:
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>> On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:52:32 -0500, Melba's Jammin'
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>>> It builds character. :-) That's what I always told my whiners
>>> when I made them scrub pickling cucumbers. Now I wash them in the
>>> washing machine with a couple towels.
>>>

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>> How do you wash cucumbers in the washing machine?
>> Thanks!
>> Tara

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> My mother washed turnip greens, mustard greens and collard greens in the
> washing machine. When I was a kid, I thought that was strange. lol


It works well to get rid of the sand, on gentle, and as long as it
doesn't go through the spin cycle. Unless you *only* want the stems.