Posted on 10/25/2013 12:44:35 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Any pickling recipe that you may have for canning pickles works for refrigerator pickles.
My MIL used to slice up cukes, onions and mix up some vinegar with sugar to pour over the cukes/onion mixture. For less sour, she added a little water and more sugar.
I like to add stuff like garlic, peppercorns, ginger, mustard, seed etc to my mixture.
I use pickling juices about 3 times for pickles, then you can use it as a marinade to tenderize meat.LOL
Don’t be scared - just be observant. No eating the green stuff.LOL
LOL! strange how that happens....
I should warn you, I've never made pickle one, so this is another one of my new learning adventures. Darlin is so patient with me. I've got a new project going all the time. Sometimes I even complete them!
Got the new lean-to for firewood built against the barn; finished the Fall tilling; finished harvesting the carrots and coriander seed; put a cover over the Brussels sprouts; the leeks can take care of themselves.
...and outside a wind is rising, as the temperature plummets: Arctic Clipper coming in, and hanging around all week.
Just get the Ball Blue Book of Canning. It’s a great go to resource for canning and preserving, with lots of good recipes.
Sounds like a good time to be snuggled up inside with a hot cup of something good to drink or eat.LOL
Being a good liberal, I’m sure she makes a special trip to the Recycling-R-Us place in her Prius. I make it a point to surround myself with people of a like nature, but have no choice with wife’s sister. I’ve never seen anyone so drunk on KoolAid before. Make me wanna puke. It really irritates her to see the thriving economy of a free people in a free state here in Texas, but a Texas star on every thing is the icing on the cake. Hehehe. She is so media absorbed that she was absolutely shocked to hear that John Wayne was NOT from Texas and that Reagan was not from Kalifornica. Had to search it online the minute I told her that. Can’t believe no Texan, you know. Hehehe I hold myself back, but if SHE makes a political comment while visiting, I fire back. I love her, she’s family, but I don’t take no **** from nobody in my own home. I don’t go to someone else’s home and make any political statements; I was raised better than that. Actually, she was too, but the KoolAid makes people behave stupidly.
—add stuff like garlic, peppercorns, ginger, mustard, seed etc—
Sounds like our pickles, we make bread and butter and dill, with half being regular and half being spicy hot. Hot pickles are popular here.— Maybe some refrigerator ghost pepper flavored pickles, hmmm...
I had noticed the similarities between canned and not canned pickles and had made the assumption that the recipes would interchange.
Yep, it tis. I’m on my way to town and gunna pick up some pickling cukes while there.
Well, that’s good, because I think I do already have it! I have several good ones, I believe, but just haven’t had the stones to try doing it yet. Thanks for the confidence booster, that that book CAN guide my canning!
LOL! hope you have some wonderful pickles! Think of me while you eat them!
Pickles are very simple, if I can make them, anybody can. I am more interested in just making a few jars of refrigerator pickles than canning a large recipe since they are just as good or better and a lot less work. Either way is simple enough though. Just do it! You’ll be glad. Guaranteed! :)
Mrs. AR is in the kitchen, making a big pot of cheesy cream of potato soup, with ham hocks. LOL
Using the itty-bitty marble sized potatoes that inevitably make up part of the potato harvest, and have to be used quickly: they either go in soups/stews; or into peas & potatoes in cream sauce. Also will have some of our leeks in it.
When my sister misbehaves, I just look at her and say your Mother must be proud. She’s not a koolade drinker though, but sometimes I wonder if we are really related.LOL
I love the flavor of bread and butter, but they are not as crunchy as I like. So making up a bread and butter mix, and letting it cool a bit before adding the cukes helps.
Maybe start with water bath canning of pickles - that’s pretty easy.
I have a few, that I am thinking about planting in a pot to see if I can get a decent seed potato by spring. Just an experiment ya know?
The crunchy was what we liked about the refrigerator bread and butter pickles that I first made. We have a brand of B&B pickles that are spicy hot and sometimes are pretty doggone hot with small red peppers in each jar. It was those that I made them in the first time and they came out spicy as a fresh cuke. I picked up a couple of lbs of pickling cukes today on my trip into town, so, one day real soon I am going to do more, trying a recipe this time and maybe adding some ghost pepper.
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