If you are looking for a traditional sweet pickle recipe, like the kind they used to serve with church sandwiches or at bridal shower luncheons, then look no further! This classic recipe will bring back fond memories of elbowing your way through buffet lines to score those crunchy sweet pickles!
Nine Day Pickle Recipe:
10 lbs. pickling cucumbers (washed & sliced into 1/2 - 1 inch pieces with blossom ends removed).
2 cups pickling salt (not iodized salt).
Boiling water to cover cucumbers.
Brine:
10 cups white vinegar
12 cups granulated sugar (divided).
2 tbsp's pickling spice.
DAY 1-3
~ Layer prepared cucumbers and pickling salt in a large , deep stone crock or a food grade plastic or stainless steel container.
~ Cover with boiling water.
~ Let stand for 3 days.
DAY 4
~ Drain salt water brine.
~ Cover with boiling water.
~ Replace weight.
DAY 5
~ Repeat steps from DAY 4.
DAY 6
~ Drain and rinse cucumbers under cold water.
~ Make brine (combine vinegar, 6 cups of the sugar and pickling spice) and bring to a boil.
~ Pour over drained cucumbers and replace weight. Cover with cheesecloth.
DAY 7
~ Drain cucumbers, reserving brine in a saucepan.
~ Add 3 cups sugar to the brine, bring to a boil.
~ Pour boiling brine over drained cucumbers.
~ Replace weight & cheesecloth.
DAY 8
~ Repeat steps from DAY 7
DAY 9
~ Drain cucumbers, reserving brine in a saucepan, bring to a boil.
~ Pack drained cucumbers into 10 pint jars up to an inch of top rim of the jar.
~ Add boiling brine to within a half inch of rim, remove air bubbles, re-adjust brine level if necessary.
~ Wipe rims with clean cloth, screw on lids finger tight.
~ Process in a hot water bath canner for 10 minutes (15 minutes for quarts).
Makes about 10 pints.
Pickles taste best when allowed to sit for 2-3 weeks.
Processing Times over 1000 ft above Sea Level:
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11 окт 2024
