6 March, 2021
Quick Pickles
Posted in : Recipe on by : michael
Quick Pickles
Ingredients
- ½ cup white vinegar
- ⅓ cup pickling salt
- 1 tsp coriander
- ½ tsp mustard seed
- ¼ tsp red pepper flakes
- 1 tbsp black peppercorns
- 2 tbsp dill seed
- ½ tsp dried garlic
- 20 small pickling cucumbers
- 6 pint mason jars
Instructions
- Put the salt, vinegar, coriander, garlic, mustard, red pepper, and pepper corns in a 2 quart pitcher.
- Fill the pitcher with cold water and stir well. Set aside to let it blend
- Cut off both ends of the cucumbers and then cut into spears (quarters)
- Pack the cucumbers into the mason jars pretty tightly – they hold about 3 or so cucumbers per jar
- Put 1 tsp of dill see into each jar
- Make sure all the salt has dissolved in the brine. If not stir some more and let it sit for 5 minutes.
- Pour the contents of the pitcher through a strainer into another container – keeping the brine!
- Spoon the seed/herbs into the mason jars. Try to get a bit of everything into each jar
- Fill the jars with the brine to about ¼ inch from the rim. Make sure the cucumbers are covered
- Put the lids on the Mason jars tightly and shake each jar to mix up the contents
- Put the jars in the refrigerator for at least 3-4 days before tasting.