Simple Pickling Recipe - Use for all your pickling needs
This is the pickling recipe that we use here on the farm. The base recipe comes from my mother-in-law and it is what she has used for 30 years, though we have made it our own with some minor tweaks.
Recipe makes enough brine for approx 4 to 6 qt jars, depending on how full they are filled of produce and can be easily scaled to the desired amount
To make the Brine put these ingredients into a kettle on stove and heat to boiling:
- 3 qts water - (distilled is the best)
- 1 qt white vinegar
- 1 scant cup pickling salt - (almost any salt will do)
- 1 Tbsp Alum
Mix and set to heating while doing the rest.
To prepare the jars follow these steps:
Put dill in bottom of each sanitized jar and place cukes, beans, veggies, or whatever will be pickled, on top of the dill.
Then add 1/2 to 1 tsp of each ingredient desired to each jar: (amount depends on your tastes)
- fresh dill
- diced, dehydrated onion and garlic
- pickling spice
- fresh garlic and onion
- top off jar with more dill
Once brine has boiled fill the jars to about 1 inch below the rim. Wipe the rims of the jars with a clean wet cloth, then seal jars with lids and rings. Process in a Boiling-Water Bath for 5 Minutes, start counting the time as soon as the jars are placed in actively boiling water. Due to the amount of vinegar the acidity is high enough that pressure canning is not needed, only the boiling-water bath is required to seal the jars.
If you are only making one jar to eat, you don't need to seal it as you will eat it soon. Just leave the jar on the counter for a couple of hours then they will be cool enough to eat.
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Hooray to anything pickled!
I especially love a good pickled garlic. Casa De Fruita near Gilroy has the pickled elephant head garlic.... SOOOO GOOD!!!!
I haven't done in pickling or canning in years, and I really do miss my days of learning food storage with my grandma, so thank you for sharing this. I'm a very active member in the preppers community so this is definitely worth my upvote.
I also posted about the book "Putting Food By" last night which is the perfect book if you want to re-learn canning and food preservation. I can't recommend this book enough for anyone who wants to learn food preservation. It is what helped us to tweak this recipe to our tastes and equipment we have.
https://steemit.com/homesteading/@flemingfarm/putting-food-by-the-best-book-about-home-food-preservation-that-everyone-needs-in-their-home
Awesome timing!!! My wife was just looking for a recipe for dilly beans. Thanks!
Thanks for this @flemingfarm - will encourage me to get pickling.
I have never done it before but have been growing gherkin and cornichon cucumbers this year - and they are just about ready for harvest. Do you pickle these at all?
You can pickle anything from the garden. Really, anything you pick should be able to be pickled. How the texture will be is the issue since pouring boiling brine over lettuce or other leafy greens will turn it to mush after the boiling water bath. Pickle meats, eggs, fish, herbs.
Oh the good old pickling recipes, makes me think about my grandmother. Maybe i should give this a try and see if i can do it :D
Thanks for posting this, nice writeup.
Thank you. You can do it! You can even do pint jars if you don't have a stock pot for the boiling water bath since they will fit in the standard 8 qt pot. Just have to cut the beans down to a length that fits your jars.
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