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Nov
Every day for 3 days days 11 12 13 drain the syrup into a pot reheat and pour back over the pickles. Combine salt and 8 cups of water in a large stock pot.
Add cucumber strips and allow to stand in brine 12 hours.
Ripe cucumber pickle recipe. Cut cucumbers into large strips or pieces. Combine salt and 8 cups of water in a large stock pot. Stir until salt dissolves.
Ripe cucumber pickles for yellow cucumbers 8 large cucumbers. 3 1 2 cups brown vinegar. 2 tbsp mustard seed.
1 tbsp celery seed. 1 tbsp whole pickling spice. 1 1 2 cups sugar.
Peel cucumbers remove seeds. Sprinkle with salt let stand 2 hours. Place salted cucumbers in colander rinse.
Let drain for 1 hour. Peel cut in halves lengthwise and scoop out seeds. Let stand overnight in a brine made of the salt and water.
Drain very well and cut into pieces. Tie spices into a cheesecloth bag. Bring sugar vinegar and spice bag to a boil.
Add cucumbers and boil until cukes begin to look transparent but are still crisp. Cut into strips 1 x 2 1 2 inches. Combine salt and water and stir until salt is dissolved.
Add cucumber strips and allow to stand in brine 12 hours. Tie pickling spices in a cheesecloth bag. Combine vinegar sugar mustard seed and spices.
Add only enough strips to vinegar at a time to cover the bottom of the pan cook. 2 tablespoons yellow mustard seed. 1 tablespoon whole cloves.
1 3 stick of cinnamon. Wash and peel the cucumbers. Cut in halves lengthwise removing the seeds.
Make a brine with the salt and water. Ripe cucumber pickles peel and cut cucumbers. Soak overnight in 3.
Mixed spices 1 2 tsp. Alum boil syrup then add cucumber and boil 3 minutes. Pack in jars and seal.
Add a couple of drops of green food coloring and several of yellow. Bring to boil simmer 10 minutes. Pour over cucumbers submerge the spice bag in the pail.
Every day for 3 days days 11 12 13 drain the syrup into a pot reheat and pour back over the pickles. This week we have been picking ripe cucumbers. This is a recipe that uses those overgrown and yellow cucumbers that always seem to hide under the leaves.
Leave your cucumbers on the vine longer. Wait for them to get to the size of overgrown zucchinis. The cucumbers will turn a light green almost white then yellow and sometimes orange.
Fill up the jars with the cucumbers and add garlic cloves black peppercorns dried dill and slices of horseradish in between. Add 1 2 pieces of horseradish on top. In a big pot bring vinegar to a boil together with salt and sugar.
Cut the cucumbers in quarters lengthwise and remove the large seeded area from the middle. Cut the cucumber strips into 1 inch long chunks. Step 4 combine the water white vinegar pickling salt and pickling spice in a large kettle to make the brine.