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| Farmer Judy |
Posted - Sep 15 2011 : 3:39:43 PM
Does anyone have a easy pickle recipe that I cannot botch up? I have 3 plastic shopping bags of pickles and have a lot of untried recipes in books. I will have to buy more jars and it comes out really bad I know I will hear about it. I only have a hot water canner right now. Help!
God bless,
Judy
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| countrymommy85 |
Posted - Sep 17 2011 : 05:44:07 AM
I tried 3 different recipes this year for my pickles. The first one was just getting a packet of the Mrs. Wages Kosher Dill Pickle mix. Those turned out absolutely fabulous. All you do is mix the packet with vinegar and water and pour over your cold packed pickles.
The other recipe also turned out well, I got it out of the book "Put 'em Up!" and the last recipe was one I found online. My husband loves my pickles and brags about them all the time, I just love the fact he can appreciate and enjoy the fruits of my labor :D Best of luck!
Oh, someone I know tried one of the pickle recipes in the Ball canning book and theirs turned out slimey too! None of mine turned out slimey and I put them in the canner for 20 min. (all 3 recipes). Next year I will try out the crispy recipe! I love trying out new recipes :) (Hence my trying out 3 recipes this year, haha!)
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| emsmommy5 |
Posted - Sep 16 2011 : 01:38:59 AM
I just made pickles last week. My way is a little different. Got the trick from an old farmer who is best buds with a guy who worked for Farmen Pickles and now has his own pickle business. They are AWESOME and so crunchy!!! Even the slices and spears stayed crunchy.
Here's the way he told me to do it....
Put the cleaned, trimmed (or cut up) cukes in the fridge to get as cold as possible.
In the clean, warm jars put some cut up onion, stalk of dill, 1/2 tsp of minced garlic (or a couple of cloves)and a 1/2 tsp of salt for quarts and 1/4 tsp for pints. Or no salt if you prefer.
Heat up a mixed of 1/2 5% white vinegar and 1/2 water to boiling.
WHen you have everything ready to go, lids boiled, canner at a rolling boil....
take the cukes out of the fridge and stuff them in the jars. You can have them sliced into spears, slices, or whole. Pour the boiling liquid in the jar. Leave head space. Put the lid on it. Get the jars to the canner. Lower the full rack into the canner.
Bring the canner ONLY back up to the rolling boil then take the bottles out.
I made dozens of bottles of pickles like this and they are great.
Last year I tried the recipe out of my ball canning book, put in the grape leaf and kept them in the canner for the 15 minutes. Mine (I don't know what I did) were slimey, soggy and gross. Following the old farmer's recipe is the only way I will ever do them from now on. THe old farmer said that the key is having everything ready, putting them in the water and only letting the canner come back to the boil. Anything more than that will over cook them. You can put some red pepper or jalapeno in the jar if you like hotter pickles. You don't have to put in garlic and onion if you don't want... or can put in just onion and no garlic or just garlic and no onion. We also made pickled beans for the first time.
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| Lieberkim |
Posted - Sep 15 2011 : 3:51:17 PM
Put a grape leaf, clove of garlic and some dill in each jar. Jam the jar full of cucumbers. Boil vinegar/water and salt (example 2 1/2 cups of water, 2 1/2 cups of vinegar {5% acidity} and 1/4 cup of salt {pickling variety}. Adjust for how much you need to fill the amount of jars you are making) and pour it into the jars leaving 1/4 inch at the top. Hot water bath for 15 minutes. The grape leaf is a natural form of alum to help keep the pickles crisp.
Hope that helps!
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