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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nWe were down to our last jar of bread & butter pickles from last year, so we decided to start with those. You can tell it’s early in the canning season, because I entertained the idea of cutting the cucumbers with the crinkle cutter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nThe struggle with these pickles is that you have to slice and salt them, and leave them for an hour to drain before finishing the recipe. And I always forget that – so when I carve out the time to do them, suddenly I have an hour in the middle of it where I need to do something else while I wait, like laundry. I never learn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nThe recipe we use is an old American recipe, that came from my Danish mother-in-law. We used my family’s recipe for a number of years, but then had a jar of hers and decided that was the better recipe. We’ve used it a couple of years now and everyone loves it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\nThe recipe:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- 8 cups cucumbers, sliced thin<\/li>
- 3 cups onions, sliced thin or chopped*<\/li>
- 4 tbsp salt<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Sprinkle salt over\nvegetables and let stand 1 hour<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Drain and add<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- 2 cups vinegar<\/li>
- 2 tsp turmeric powder<\/li>
- 2 tsp celery seed<\/li>
- 3\u201d stick of cinnamon<\/li>
- 3 cups white sugar<\/li>
- 4 green peppers, chopped fine*<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Bring syrup\nto a boiling point, just simmering, for 15-20 minutes. Pour over cucumbers in hot sterilized jar,\nand process for 10-15 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
*Use half as many as called for, or omit entirely if you don’t like the taste<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The results<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n 8 cups of cucumbers netted us 4 pint jars of pickles. Which is a manageable amount to can; as the season runs on we will end up doing double and triple batches, and most of Sunday afternoon into evening will be spent on canning. I am always grateful for the work come the middle of winter, but in the heat of summer it can be draining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We are having a great cucumber year. So we decided to make our first batch of pickles this week. We were down to our last jar of bread & butter pickles from last year, so we decided to start with those. You can tell it’s early in the canning season, because I entertained the idea … Continue reading Pickles<\/span>