Recipe for dill pickles

[snelson]

Sorry if someone posted a recipe for pickles....I couldn't find one...but I need one! I have looked online for different ones and can't find one that sounds good. Dill or sweet...doesn't matter.
Thanks!!

[Mary Ann]

Ooooh, here's an astonishingly easy recipe for sweets. You can grind them for relish if you like.

Sweet pickle chunks:
Pour boiling water over 24 pickling cukes for 4 days. On 5th day, drain, add this syrup.Cut cukes in chunks.
8 cups sugar
4 cups cider vinegar 5% acidity
3 1/2 tsp. pickling and canning salt
2 Tbsp. pickling spices, tied in a bag.
Drain and heat syrup for 3 more days. On 4th day, pack pickles into jars, seal with lid. Process in water bath canner for 10 minutes.

I love these with tuna!
I used pickle crisp on these and my dh says they are TOO crunchy. I like them crunchy. The pickle crisp didn't hurt mine at all.
You drain off the water each day, boil fresh water, and pour over the cucumbers. Let sit a while to cool down before you cover them up.
On the 5th day, drain off all the water. Cut cucumbers into chunks. Make the syrup, pour over the cut up cucumbers. Then, each day for 3 more days, pour off the syrup, bring syrup with the spice bag to a boil and pour back over the chunks of cucumbers. On the 4th day of the syrup, drain off, boil, pack pickles into jars, pour over the hot syrup, seal jars, and process in the BWB.


Another place you can look is www.uga.edu/nchfp/index.html. It's the National Center for Home Food Preservation. They do much of the work that ends up being the Ball Blue Book.

Where are you getting your kirbys? They wanted three for a dollar at the Ottawa Farmer's Market the other day.

[snelson]

Thanks MaryAnn!

I am getting some from my little bitty garden behind my shed!