Favourite Cucumber Pickling Recipes Please!

I've got cukes by the pail loads coming now and a whole lot more on the way. I've been collecting recipes from here and there but would love to try any of your faves as well.

Thank you in advance!

Pam

Here's one of mine.

REFRIGERATOR BREAD AND BUTTER PICKLES
3 cups white vinegar
4 cups sugar
1/4 cup pickling salt
1 tsp. turmeric
1 tsp. celery seed
1 tsp. mustard seed
1 tsp. pickling spice

10 cups sliced cucumbers
1 cup sliced onion
1 cup sliced sweet peppers

Combine vinegar and next six ingredients in a stainless steel saucepan and bring to a boil over medium heat. Cook until sugar is dissolved. Cool. Pour over veggies and store in glass jar(s) in refrigerator. These will keep for several weeks.

Makes three quarts.

Check out this thread http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/881161/

I don't think you're gettin any more pickle recipes right now so bumping this up to say hello and look at my Delicious, You were right (if this is the same tomato you grew). It is very very good, wish I had isolated some blossoms for seed. Sure hope I have some left for next year.

The plants took a week or two off after giving me a few smaller ones, but now they are back.

Sorry no dill recipes for you.

Oh sure tease me some more echoes! ;D Mine's getting close though (we picked some that had a overall blush today....rain's expected and I sure didn't want them to burst).

I really enjoyed that mater (past 2 years) too.

I'll take a Bread and Butter recipe, or a pickled tomato, or, or, or, instead!!!!!! :^)))

OK, I'll find one that I used to make. So, is that the same Delicious you think you grew? Well I guess you can't tell for sure just by looking, but just maybe?

BTW, Rona has lovely mums on for 3.99 and the bulbs are in at Costco, in case you're near those stores.

Bread and Butter Pickles from my Chatelaine Cookbook 1973.

18 (3-4 inch) pickling cucumbers
6 small onions, thinly sliced
1 C salt
2½ C cider vinegar
1½ tsp celery seed
1T mustard seed
½ tsp cloves
½ tstp allspice
1tsp turmeric
3 C sugar

Scrub cucumbers and thinly slice without peeling. Alternate cucumbers and onion slices in a bowl. Sprinkle a little of the salt between each layer. Leave 30 minutes. Meanwhile, mix remaining ingredients and bring to a boil. Simmer 5 minutes. Rinse cucumber and onion slices under cold water to remove salt and drain. Add to boiling syrup and boil 1 or 2 minutes. Pack in hot sterilized sealers and seal. Makes four or five 16 oz. jars.

My notes beside the ingredients are:

2 C vinegar
2 C. water
2 C. sugar
½ tsp turmeric (must have tasted too strong)

Not sure why I changed it, or when. Wish I could remember. Think I liked my way better, but not sure how many times I made it that way, or if I got the amounts from another recipe. I really liked the bought ones, so I'm sure I was aiming for that taste.

Want to make relish? got apples for chutney?

I'll get some re apples! :) Thank you so much for the one above and the ones coming (((((Brenda))))))! :D :D :D
We will be Alberta bound tomorrow though (loading up the camper now).

Don't know if any folks from Drumheller are around now but will check here tomorrow before we leave.

re the tomato it's hard to tell (but it looks mighty close) :) You are very happy with the flavour so I'm guessing it might be it.

It's shaped the same as the one I grew (2 years ago): http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/125649/
Here's the one I grew cut: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/125654/

To others reading this there is a bit of a debate if there are "somewhat different" varieties of the tomato 'Delicious' out there. Many Americans say it's not worth growing but all Canadians that I've seen post about it (including at Gardenweb) say that it is one of their faves/or their top fave/& some Americans really like it too (but they say their seeds have to come from one source). So with seeing posts of very different opinions (as well as posts wondering if there has been a bit of crossing in some 'Delicious' out there) I wished I had grown mine in isolation (and kept the seeds). Naturally I started to wonder if Canadians had a different seed source then a number of Americans?

Brenda you should ferment at least one of your tomatoes (and I'd be happy to grow out a few here next year).

Somewhere in my mapped plot (if I can find the map again :S) I've got some Delicious growing (from another source) and I'm eager to see how it compares to the ones I grew two years ago (and to the one you grew above).

The only difference I can see is yours has green on top (like Big Red's at the link I gave above) and mine didn't. However growing conditions (water and temperature) may affect that. I'm not sure about the seed arrangement etc inside (again are all alike......even within the same plant?) Edited to say but again yours looks pretty close (and very meaty like mine was :).






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This message was edited Aug 28, 2008 11:14 PM

Am heading out to farmers' market today to get some cucumbers for dill pickles.

Dill Pickles

Make a boiling brine of:
7 1/2 cups water
2 cups CIDER vinegar
1/2 cup pickling salt
(I usually add a few cloves of garlic while it comes to a boil).

Use fresh cucumbers, washed well.
Use hot, sterile jars and new sterilized lids.

Pack jars full of cucumbers. Add 2-3 cloves of garlic and one or two heads of dill per jar.
Cover with boiling brine. Put sterile lid on jar and screw on ring.
Process in boiling water bath at full boil for 5 minutes. (Note - this recipe simply indicated to cover with boiling brine and seal, but I found that too many of the jars didn't develop a proper seal, hence the short boiling water bath).
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That recipe won me a first prize at the Ex many years ago. I still make it but nowadays I also add a piece (a couple of inches long) of Cayenne pepper to each jar for a bit more bite.

Ann

Ü Thank you Ann! Ü

I'm just starting another batch now! :D