Want CRISP dill pickle recipe please

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03-02-2011, 10:49 PM

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traveling2dals

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How long do they set before eating them

03-03-2011, 04:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Sandra in Minnesota

Alum usually keeps them crispy, and also hard water or store boughten water helps too. It is a real science to get a good pickle that your family likes, and it turns out every year to be good.

If hard water has much to do with it, our pickles around here could be like cement! We have well water, and we really need a filter. Maybe one day we can get one...right now it is just straight out of the ground, from about 386'. Deep well water with LOTS of minerals!

03-03-2011, 04:56 AM

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Originally Posted by koko

With canning be it pickles, jams and jellies or vegetables there are food safety issues that need to be addressed. Here's the National Food Preservation website that will answer all your food preservation questions, provide tested recipes and explain why and how foods need to be processed and for how long to prevent bacterial problems. Good luck with the dill pickles!
http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/

Thanks for the link. Will try to read up on it later today. It may have lots of things there I'd like to try!

Thanks again!

03-03-2011, 04:57 AM

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Originally Posted by traveling2dals

How long do they set before eating them

With the sweet pickles, it takes about 3 days to make them. They are usually pretty crisp when you finish. Do taste better cold... Not sure about the dill ones!

03-06-2011, 10:13 AM

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Originally Posted by donnaree59

Does anyone here have a TRIED and TRUE recipe that makes dill pickles that are crispy?

REFRIGERATOR DILL PICKLES

(I've had these remain crisp, in the fridge, from one season to the next.)

4 qts. (1 gallon) whole or chunked cucumbers
16 garlic cloves, sliced
4 heads fresh dill
1/2 tsp. dried red pepper flakes

1 qt. cider vinegar
1 qt. water
1/4 c. pickling spices
1/3 c. pickling/canning salt
2 Tbsp. white sugar
1/2 tsp. tumeric
1 c. chopped fresh dill

Pack in jars or plastic tubs with lids.
Add garlic and a pinch of pepper flakes to each container.
Add sprigs of fresh dill.

Boil vinegar, water, spices, salt, sugar, tumeric & chopped dill. Turn down & simmer 5 minutes.
Strain and add brine to pickle containers.
Cool, cover and refrigerate. Wait 7 to 10 days to eat.

03-07-2011, 01:07 PM

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I'am looking for a candy sweet dill pickle reciepe. these are sweet and crunchy

06-06-2011, 05:56 AM

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If all else fails, contact "Claussen" company. Their "chill dills" are great and crunchy, crunchy, crunchy.
Google "Homemade Dill Pickles, Crispy, Crunchy", bet you'll find exactly what you want.

06-07-2011, 04:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Alice Woodhull

Here is my recipe for Dill Pickles. It won the blue ribbon at the Indiana State Fair last year.

4 quarts water
1 quart vinegar
1 cup canning salt
Heat to boiling.
1 head dill per jar
1 clove garlic per jar
Split pickles into halves or quarters and place in jar with dill and garlic. Pour vinegar mixture over pickles, leaving 1/4 inch head space. Top with lid and ring. Process 5 minutes in boiling water bath.

I use this same recipe only mine calls for 3 quarts water to and 1 quart vinegar. Always use pure apple cider vinegar.

06-08-2011, 08:32 AM

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Well y'all, if we don't get rain soon and a little cooler temperatures, I won't have any cucumbers to try using for my dill pickles! It was 97+ for most of last week here, a little cooler this week (94 - 96), but still no rain. We do water the garden, but with this kind of heat, seems everything is just cooking. A friend of mine posted on Facebook that he has baked potatoes and fried squash ready in his garden... We're just praying for rain. No matter how much we water, just a little actual rainfall makes so much more of a difference!

06-11-2011, 03:34 AM

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Alice Woodhull

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Our cucumbers have been planted. We almost didn't getthem in due to too much rain. Now it has stopped and he is watering the garden. Howeve, it lookslike we had a shower over night. Don't know how much, but it makes things look better at least. Good luck making the pickles. I hope you like them as much as I do.