| Homemade Pickles Packed Various Ways |
Fresh Pack Dill Pickles Recipe
Ingredients:
7 quarts whole cucumbers, 3-5 inches long (approximately 17-18 pounds)
2 gallons of 5% Brine (see recipe below)
6 cups vinegar
¾ cup Pickling salt
¼ cup sugar
9 cups water
2 Tablespoons whole mixed pickling spice, tied into small cheesecloth bag.
Add-ins Per Jar:
Mustard seed
Garlic
Dill
Directions:
1. Wash cucumbers thoroughly. Cover with 5% Brine and let stand overnight in ice box (aka refrigerator).
2. Next day, drain cucumbers.
3. Combine vinegar, salt, sugar, water, and pickling spice bag in pot. Heat to boiling and let stand while packing cucumbers into quart jars.
4. After packing in cucumbers, add 2 teaspoons mustard seed, 1 glove garlic, and 3 heads dill to each jar
5. Cover with boiling spice liquid to about ¼ inch of top of jar.
6. Wipe tops and seal jars.
7. Process in boiling water 20 minutes.
View Canning Homemade No Fail Dill Pickles video on packing and boiling jars, which starts at step 3 above. This video contains another grandmother’s recipe, so you can use the above or use that one. You can tell by the look of the cucumbers he already did the overnight soak and drain in steps 1-2.
Five Percent Brine Recipe
Ingredients:
2 gallons of water
1 ½ cups pickling salt
Directions:
1. Heat water to boil. Dissolve salt in water.
2. Cool brine mixture to room temperature before using.
(Why you should not substitute pickling salt with ordinary table salt)
Some pickle recipes call for vinegar instead, check Vinegar-Brine Pickling Method if you have a recipe that calls for that.
Bread and Butter Pickles Recipe
Ingredients:
25-30 medium cucumbers, sliced thin
(NOTE: Grandma said zucchini squash may be used instead of cucumbers if you like.)
8 large onions
2 large bell peppers
½ cup pickling salt (for soaking in water)
5 cups cider vinegar
5 cups sugar (approximately 2 ½ pounds)
2 Tablespoons mustard seed
1 teaspoon turmeric
½ teaspoon cloves
Directions:
1. Wash cucumbers and slice thin.
2. Chop all remaining vegetables into cucumbers and add salt with enough cold water to cover.
3. Let stand for 3 hours and then drain well.
4. Combine vinegar, sugar, and spices in large kettle (aka pot).
5. Bring to a boil, then add the drained vegetables and heat thoroughly. Do not boil again.
6. Pack into hot sterilized jars.
7. Seal and place in boiling water bath for 5 minutes.
8. Remove jars and cool.
View Depression Style Bread and Butter Picklesvideo on slicing and prepping the pickles a little differently from above recipe. This video uses hot peppers and garlic to make them spicier but it does not include measurements, however it is very entertaining
This post first appeared on Organize This With Style! (aka Org This), please read the originial post: here
