dill pickle recipe

[majorcatfish]

dw has been tried to make dill pickles over the years and she has not been able to find a great recipe for a crisp dill pickle for canning would any you have a handed down one she can try..???

 

[Carol Dee]

oh yes, DH wants dill pickles and we can not find his Grandma's recipe. So I will be watching too.

 

[majorcatfish]

That's the same boat we are in Dwm never shared her dill pickle receipe.
It has been many many years but still can remember the taste.

 

[MontyJ]

I have one. It doesn't work so well with slices, but makes great spears! I'll get it posted tomorrow.

 

[majorcatfish]

here is why we need a dill pickle recipe

the dw asked for more cucumber plants awhile back,so tilled up the garlic bed and figured if i plant 50 seeds maybe half would come up nope all 50 +2 seeds come up
dw mentioned why did i plant so many... my reply because you wanted more....

she has made
B&B pickles
freezer pickles
relish
fridge dills

 

[baymule]

Wow Major! You have some major cucumbers going on! Beautiful vines! I posted a sweet pickle recipe that was passed down from my great grandmother and a cinnamon candy pickle recipe that my grandmother gave me. Both are good, even if you don't like sweet pickles, you might like these!

http://www.theeasygarden.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=35008

 

[majorcatfish]

Wow Major! You have some major cucumbers going on! Beautiful vines! I posted a sweet pickle recipe that was passed down from my great grandmother and a cinnamon candy pickle recipe that my grandmother gave me. Both are good, even if you don't like sweet pickles, you might like these!

http://www.theeasygarden.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=35008

bay dw made the sweet pickle of yours... have to say um WOW thats a great sweet pickle. it has a perfect combination of flavors. you just got 10 stars out of 5.

theres something about a great dill pickle that you can open from the jar in the middle of winter..

 

[MontyJ]

Here is how I make my dill spears. I tried the same method for slices, but they get mushy from the waterbath. I am going to try a lime brine this year. This does make great spears though. It's adapted from the Ball Blue Book:

Ingredients:
Pickle spears
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup canning salt
1 quart vinegar
1 quart water
fresh dill heads and leaves
pickle crisp

Trim the blossom ends off the cucumbers, but leave the stem end attached. Cut into spears. Combine sugar, salt, vinegar and water in a sauce pan and bring just to a boil. Pack spears into jars along with a head or two of dill (to your taste), add 1/8 tsp pickle crisp to pint jars (1/4 tsp for quarts). Pour hot vinegar solution over spears leaving 1/4" head space. Process in a water bath canner pints = 10 minutes, quarts = 15 minutes. Store the sealed jars out of direct sunlight. I like to let them set for a month before opening them. It let's them absorb the dill better.

 

[Ridgerunner]

You can add a grape leaf too, though if you cut the blossom end off, Im not sure it helps. That blossom end is supposed to have something in it that can cause them to go soft. A grape leaf is supposed to have an enzyme that counters that.

I both cut it off and add a grape leaf. I have not tried the pickle crisp but bought some to try this year. I do either whole pickles or spears, no slices for the dills, and have not been real happy with the results. They taste fine but are not as crisp as Id like. Maybe the pickle crisp will make a difference.

 

[Carol Dee]

Thanks for the recipe Monty. DH wants to try pickling the MANY cucumbers we have. (I asked why on earth did you plant so many? Because that is how many seeds where in the pack! )