Crystal Pickles
From lindal34 15 years ago
- 60 minutes to make
- Serves 10
Wonderful crunchy sweet pickles that you can't buy in any store anymore. You need a large container with a lid to soak these, but it's an easy, no-fail recipe. Prep and cook times are apparent in recipe and don't fit well into the assigned slots here.
Ingredients
- 7 Pounds cucumbers, Sliced Lengthwise. (and in pieces to fit into a pint jar.) shopping list
- 2 Cups Household (pickling) lime (find in canning or spice department at grocery store) shopping list
- 2 Gallons water shopping list
- 2 Quarts white vinegar shopping list
- 1 Tablespoon Pickling spice shopping list
- 1 Tablespoon celery Seed shopping list
- 1 Tablespoon whole cloves shopping list
- 4 1/2 Pounds sugar shopping list
- 1 Tablespoon salt shopping list
- green food coloring shopping list
- 10 Pint Jars or fewer 1 1/2 pt jars With Ball Lids and Rings shopping list
How to make it
- Mix the lime and water and soak the sliced cucumbers for 24 hours.
- Rinse and rinse and rinse until all lime is off.
- Soak in plain water for about 3 hours and allow to drain.
- Stir together the White Vinegar, pickling spice, celery seed, whole cloves sugar and salt . Pour over drained cucumbers and allow to stand overnight.
- Boil the cucumber in the mixture for about 35 minutes or until TRANSPARENT.
- These pickles are so GOOD with ham sandwiches and hamburgers!
- Add Green food coloring.
- These pickles can be emerald green.
- Pack into sterile canning Jars, wipe rim carefully with a wet cloth, tighten lids and process water bath for 10 minutes. Water bath is placing jars in a heavy pot or canner and then adding enough hot boiling water to just cover.
- Remove jars and allow to cool. If any jars fail to seal, just refrigerate.
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Sounds fantastic. Great recipe. You have my 5.
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Looks great~
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Sound great!
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