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pickling cucumbers dill garlic pickling salt pickling spices peppercorns hot red chili peppers cinnamon sticks bay leaves water
Viewed: 49 - Published at: 7 years agoIngredients
- 10 gallons pickling cucumbers, medium sized, scrubbed
- 2 heads fresh dill, plants flower heads only
- 2 heads garlic, peeled
- 1 cup pickling salt
- 1/2 cup pickling spices
- 3 tablespoons peppercorns
- 3 dried hot red chili peppers
- 2 cinnamon sticks, broken
- 5 bay leaves
- water, to cover
Method
- Layer the cucumbers and dill heads with garlic.
- Pour the remaining ingredients over all and cover with cold, fresh water, filtered if you can.
- Cover with cheesecloth.
- Weigh down the pickles with a plate and jar of water. Cover with a clean tea towel.
- Check after 72 hours, remove any scum that may have formed and wash cheesecloth, plate and jar of water and replace them.
- Check after another 72 hours and see if they are done enough for you. If so, pack into sterile jars and cover with the brine.
- Store in the refrigerator to slow the fermentation process.
- I make these in a big dough bucket and pack into gallon jars and some plastic containers to give as gifts.
