Quick Sweet Pickles

  1. *(for use in variation below for making firmer pickles)
  2. May be canned as either strips or slices.
  3. Procedure: Wash cucumbers.
  4. Cut 1/16-inch off blossom end and discard, but leave 1/4 inch of stem attached.
  5. Slice or cut in strips, if desired.
  6. Place in bowl and sprinkle with 13 cup salt.
  7. Cover with 2 inches of crushed or cubed ice.
  8. Refrigerate 3 to 4 hours.
  9. Add more ice as needed.
  10. Drain well.
  11. Combine sugar, vinegar, celery seed, allspice, and mustard seed in 6-quart kettle.
  12. Heat to boiling.
  13. Hot pack--Add cucumbers and heat slowly until vinegar solution returns to boil.
  14. Stir occasionally to make sure mixture heats evenly.
  15. Fill sterile jars, leaving 1/2-inch headspace.
  16. Raw pack--Fill jars, leaving 1/2-inch headspace.
  17. Add hot pickling syrup, leaving 1/2-inch headspace.
  18. Adjust lids and process according to the recommendations in Table 1 or use the low-temperature pasteurization treatment.
  19. Variation for firmer pickles: Wash cucumbers.
  20. Cut 1/16-inch off blossom end and discard, but leave 1/4 inch of stem attached.
  21. Slice or strip cucumbers.
  22. Mix 1 cup pickling lime and 1/2 cup salt to 1 gallon water in a 2 to 3-gallon crock or enamel-ware container.
  23. Caution: Avoid inhaling lime dust while mixing the lime-water solution.
  24. Soak cucumber slices or strips in lime water solution for 12 to 24 hours, stirring occasionally.
  25. Remove from lime solution and rinse and resoak 1 hour in fresh cold water.
  26. Repeat the rinsing and resoaking two more times.
  27. Handle carefully because slices or strips will be brittle.
  28. Drain well.
  29. Storage: After processing and cooling, jars should be stored 4 to 5 weeks to develop ideal flavor.
  30. Variation: Add 2 slices of raw whole onion to each jar before filling with cucumbers.
  31. Table 1.

cucumbers pickling, salt canning, sugar, vinegar, celery seeds, allspice, mustard seeds, pickling

Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/quick-sweet-pickles-4797 (may not work)

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