Pickle recipes

[SheWoff]

Please post your pickle recipes in this thread...thanks! :mrgreen:

She

[SheWoff]

#1 05-10-2008, 11:04 AM
momof23goats
Congressman Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 4,001

polish dill pickles

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Polish Dill Pickles
Scrub small cucumbers with a brush and wash to get all the grit off. Sterilize quart jars. Pack cucumbers into sterilized quart jars.
To each jar, add:
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
a head of fresh dill
a few slices of fresh garlic
1 dried red hot pepper OR 1/2 teaspoon of red pepper flakes.

Heat the following mixture to almost a boil, bubbling around the edges:
6 cups water
2 cups white vinegar
1/2 cup pickling/canning salt

Pour the hot liquid over the cucumbers and seasonings that are packed in the jars. (Have jar lids ready, heated in hot water for a few minutes according the manufacturer's directions.) Place the lids and rings on each jar and tighten.

Place in a water bath canner for 5 minutes. Remove from the canner and allow to cool at room temperature.

Make sure each jar is sealed or they will ruin.

Let stand for at least a month to six weeks before opening.

[SheWoff]

#2 Today, 08:16 AM
kendwell
Citizen Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 13

half pickled cucumbers.

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Russian recipe. 10 pickling cucumbers, 4-5" long, 5 dill stalks w/seeds, 1 " piece fresh shredded horseradish root, 1 med clove garlic, cut in half, 2 1/2 Tbsp pickling salt, 1 black currant, cherry, or oak leaf.

lay currant, cherry or oak leaf bottom of 2 qt glass jar, wide mouth

Wash cucumbers, drain, dry, punch each with a fork a few times. Stand upright in the jar on the leaf. In between cucumbers, distribute dill, garlic, and horseradish.

In stainless sauce pan, salt w/ 1 qt water. Bring almost to a boil. Pour over cucumbers, making sure to cover them completely.

Cover jar loosely with cheesecloth, let stand at room temperature for 24
hours. Pickles are now ready to eat. You may also refrigerate them in their brine for up to a week, if they last that long. You don't NEED the leaf, but it makes a difference

[SheWoff]

#1 03-28-2008, 09:00 PM
momof23goats
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cold pack pickles

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small cakes
1c. vinegar
1 c. sugar
2 c water
1 teaspoon salt.
fill your hot jars with cukes, mix brine, heat, pour over your pickles. process in hot boiling water bath. 10 minutes.
remember to run your knife around the inside of the jar to take out bubbles.
this is an easy recipe, you can play with it. like add dill, for sweet dills. you can use small cakes, or larger ones and cut lengthwise.
I also add a very small dab of alum to the bottom of each jar. and i mean a small dab. but i love very crisp pickles.
also when I get my pickles into the house, from the garden, I wash, then chill in ice, then can. right up. don't use old pickles if you want good results.

remember for good results, hot boiling water in your pot, and the minutes start when the water starts to boil again, after putting in your jars.
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[SheWoff]

#1 03-28-2008, 08:49 PM
momof23goats
Congressman Join Date: May 2007
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simple kosher dill pickles

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30 to 36 cucumbers 3 to 4 inches long
3 c. water
3 cups vinegar
6 T. salt
fresh or dried dill
mustard seed. minced garlic,[ optional]
make your brine, of water, vinegar, salt ,bring to a good boil.
in each jar, add, 1 teaspoon mustard seed.
1 teaspoon, dried dill, or one dill head, fresh
1/4 teaspoon minced garlic
pack jars with cucumbers, fill with brine.
process 10 minutes in hot boiling water.
make usre your water covers your jars, by one inch.

[SheWoff]

#1 05-09-2008, 04:51 PM
momof23goats
Congressman Join Date: May 2007
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very easy dill pickles-any one can make these

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7quarts of 3 to 6 inch cucumbers
1 1/2 cups of pickling salt
6 cups of vinegar
1/4 cup of sugar
2 tablespoon whole mixec pickling spices
whole mustard seed
dill seed

wash your cukes and dry them. and then drain them so all water is off.
combine pickling salt and 2 gallons of water for brine. cover the cukes with the brine. let stand over night.
and then drain.
combine vinegar the vinegar salt sugar, 9 cups of water and the mixed pickling spices, tied up in a thin cloth in a large pot. and bring to a boil. Let stand and pack your cukes into hot jars, [sterilized jars], add 2 teaspoons of mustard seeds,. and 2 tablespoons of dill seeds to each jar.
now wipe off the top of your jars really well. then dry the top of your jars, making sure they are clean, and dry. now put on hot serilized lids and rings.
then process in hot boiling water bath for 20 minutes.
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[AngelDance]

Virginia's Easy Dill Pickles (makes 12 quarts)

14 cups water
6 cups white vinegar
8 Tbsp pickling salt

1/2 bushel 4-5" cucumbers
12 Tbsp minced garlic
6 Tbsp dill seed
6 tsp whole mustard seed

Mix water, vinegar and pickling salt in a large, non-reactive pot. Bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer while filling jars.

Wash cucumbers and trim 1/8" off blossom end.

Place into each quart jar: 1 Tbsp minced garlic, 1/2 Tbsp (1 & 1/2 tsp) dill seed, and 1/2 tsp whole mustard seed.

Pack cleaned, trimmed cukes tightly into sterile quart jars (you may slice lengthwise for sandwich stackers, crosswise for chips, quarters for spears, or leave whole)

Pour simmering brine over cucumbers and spices in jars, leaving 1/2" headspace. Wipe rims and place heated lids on jars. Follow with rings. Process in a boiling bath for 15 minutes.

Remove jars from canner and place on a towel topped counter away from drafts to seal.

Let cure in jars at least 4 weeks before opening. These pickles get better with age, if you can wait that long!

Angel

[Berean]

Ingredients:
2 quarts of sliced cukes - (score with a fork before slicing) - approx. 8 medium cukes
1 medium onion - thinly sliced
2 tb of canning salt
1 1/3 cups of sugar
1/2 cup white vinegar

Place sliced cukes and onions in a bowl. Sprinkle salt over mixture, then allow to sit for 2 hours, stirring often. Then drain.

Put cuke mixture back in the bowl. Add 1 1/3 cups of sugar. Mix until sugar dissolves. Add 1/2 cup of white vinegar, stir. Put in covered containers. Keep refrigerated.

[SheWoff]

For using up those little green tomatoes at the end of the garden season!

Pickled (dill) green tomatoes

3 C. white vinegar
3 C. water
12 garlic cloves peeled and sliced or 3 TBS diced garlic
1/2 C. pickling salt
4-5 lbs green tomatoes whole or wedges (can also use green cherry tomatoes)
1/4 C. dill seed or dill weed
1 TBS peppercorns (optional)

Combine vinegar, water, garlic, and salt in pan. Heat to boiling. Wash tomatoes and slice into wedges if needed. Pack tomatoes into hot, sterile jars. Add to each jar the peppercorns and dill. Remove garlic cloves from liquid if so desired. I leave mine in to give the pickles a more garlic flavor. Pour liquid mixture over tomatoes to within 1/2" headspace. Put lids on and adjust. Process in boiling water bath for 10 minutes pints, 15 for quarts. I usually only do mine in pints or it is too hard to get the pickles out fast enough lol! Now for the hard part...let pickles sit 8 weeks before using.

One thing I have noticed with making these pickles is that if you want a stronger dill flavor, to add the dill to the vinegar mixture as you are heating it, bring it to a boil and let boil for another 5 minutes.

She

[h_oder]

#1 03-28-2008, 08:49 PM
momof23goats
Congressman Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 4,001

simple kosher dill pickles

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30 to 36 cucumbers 3 to 4 inches long
3 c. water
3 cups vinegar
6 T. salt
fresh or dried dill
mustard seed. minced garlic,[ optional]
make your brine, of water, vinegar, salt ,bring to a good boil.
in each jar, add, 1 teaspoon mustard seed.
1 teaspoon, dried dill, or one dill head, fresh
1/4 teaspoon minced garlic
pack jars with cucumbers, fill with brine.
process 10 minutes in hot boiling water.
make usre your water covers your jars, by one inch.


Okay - I used this particular recipe last night, putting up my 1st batch of pickles. Question - how long is recommended to let them sit before trying? I've got a DH who desparately wants to know :)

[homemakerof6]

I have the long armenian cucumbers coming out my ears ! Is there anything I can do with those ? They didn't do well for me last year but this year !!! Wow !

[packyderms_wife]

#1 03-28-2008, 08:49 PM
momof23goats
Congressman Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 4,001

simple kosher dill pickles

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30 to 36 cucumbers 3 to 4 inches long
3 c. water
3 cups vinegar
6 T. salt
fresh or dried dill
mustard seed. minced garlic,[ optional]
make your brine, of water, vinegar, salt ,bring to a good boil.
in each jar, add, 1 teaspoon mustard seed.
1 teaspoon, dried dill, or one dill head, fresh
1/4 teaspoon minced garlic
pack jars with cucumbers, fill with brine.
process 10 minutes in hot boiling water.
make usre your water covers your jars, by one inch.

So I don't have to do anything to the cukes before putting them in the jar and THEN covering with the brine? I just want to make sure I do this correctly. Thanks Shewolf.

Kimberly

[hunybee]

that's what she told me kimberly. just make sure the brine is hot

[packyderms_wife]

that's what she told me kimberly. just make sure the brine is hot

Ok!!! I can do that!

OC does want to know why I have to dry them off thoroughly first if I'm just going to put them into a bath of salt water???

Kimberly

[hunybee]

the cucumbers? i don't know. i don't see why you should have to, but i am pretty new to this, so maybe wait for someone else to answer. sorry

[SheWoff]

Ok!!! I can do that!

OC does want to know why I have to dry them off thoroughly first if I'm just going to put them into a bath of salt water???

Kimberly

I'm taking it that you mean for the very easy dill pickle recipe? Not really sure since it's mom's recipe that I reposted for her here in the cookbook, but I would guess it has something to do with making sure all the dirt and those little black prickly things are all off of them. :-D

And huny had it right about the other ?, you don't really need to do anything to them. Some people cut off the very end of the cuke first (blossom end) but I never have.

Hope your pickles turn out great!

She

[BTR]

Here is my grandmother's very simple delicious recipe:

Crisp Cucumber Pickles

Put the following in a large jar and shake well:

2 cups cold water
2/3 cup cider vinegar
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 1/2 T dry onion flakes
3/4 tsp salt
3/4 tsp celery seed
1/2 tsp garlic salt
1/2 tsp celery seed

Wash, score and slice 4 medium cucumbers -- I use the slicer on my food processor.
Slice one large onion and julienne one large green pepper or smaller red, yellow and green peppers for color.

Pack all the veggies in the jar with the liquid. Cover and refrigerate. Stir and shake a few times a day for the first couple days. The veggies will drop below the brine in about 24 hours and they are ready to eat in about 1 day and get better as each day passes.

I always add extra onions and you can add other veggies like carrots, cauliflower, broccoli, celery and garlic cloves.

Enjoy!

[Sonofa]

1 quart

4-5 pickling cucumbers or 15-20 gherkins
1 Tablespoon mustard seeds
2 tablespoons fresh dill
1 Tablespoon sea salt
4 Tablespoons whey (if not available, use an additional tablespoon of salt)
1cup of filtered water

Wash cucumbers well and place in quart sized wide mouth jar. Combine rest of ingredients and pour over cucumbers, adding more water if necessary to cover cucumbers. The top of liquid should be 1 inch below top of jar. Cover tightly and keep at room temperature for 3 days before transfering to cold storage.

Peasant Lunch

Sourdough Bread
with cultured butter
raw chedar cheese
pickled herring
Pickled garlic
pickled cucumbers