Showing posts with label pickles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pickles. Show all posts

Monday, August 29, 2022

5 September 2021

 Sweet Hot Garlic Dills

3# (plus one 4-inch) cukes

Brine

480g vinegar

240g water

150g sugar

Per Pint Jar

1 clove garlic

1 head dill

1 1/2tsp pickling salt

1 hot pepper

JSP/RWB10(16oz)15 (32oz)A1700(15)(20)

Yielded 5 pints. 

Monday, July 31, 2017

July 2017

Watermelon Pickles

from the Ball Blue Book

2.5 qts (500g/qt) trimmed rind
1/2gal water
1/2c salt



3 1/2c sugar
1 small lemon
1 1/2 cinnamon sticks
1c vinegar
1/2T allspice
1/2T cloves
1/8tsp mustard seeds

This batch didn't seem as good as the last batch.

Thursday, September 10, 2015

6 September 2015

Sweet Garlic Dills (The Complete Book of Small-Batch Preserving)

1c sugar
4c vinegar
2c water
1/4tsp tumeric
4T pickling salt
Combine and bring to a boil.

4.6# pickling cucumbers ($5, farmer's market)

Per pint jar:
1/2-1 clove garlic (55g total (1 head, $1, farmer's market) medium Germen hardneck garlic)
1 head dill
1/8tsp celery seed

Yielded 8 pints. Seven were canned (JSP/RWB10(16oz)15(32oz), one was left as refrigerator pickles.

Hmmm. Not quite sweet enough.

Monday, June 22, 2015

22 June 2015

Pickled Northern Pike


1/2T pickling spice
1T pickling salt
1/2c sugar
1 "ring" dried onion


Didn't have enough fish for a quart, so am halving it for a pint.

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

8 June 2015

Watermelon Rind Pickles

1 quarts 1" cubed watermelon rind (white portion only)
1/4 cup canning salt
1/2  gallons water, divided
1 stick cinnamon
1/4 T whole cloves
1/4 T whole allspice
pinch mustard seed
1 3/4 cups sugar
1/8 cup thinly sliced lemon (about 1/4 one medium)
1/2 cup vinegar

Cover watermelon rind with salt and 1 gallon water, stirring to dissolve salt. Let stand 12 hours or overnight. Drain; rinse. Cover rind with 1 gallon water in large saucepot. Cook until tender. Drain; set aside. Combine spices, sugar, lemon slices, and vinegar in saucepot. Bring to a boil; simmer 10 minutes. Add rind, simmer until rind is tranparent. Remove spices  JSP/RWB/10(8oz)


Recipe from Blue Ball Book, quartered. We also added a few drops of red food colouring. Got 2 pints.


20 June 2015: They seem a bit too spicy. We'll be sure and use a spice bag next time, see if that makes a difference.