callmaker60
Senior Cook
Any one have a favorite dill pickle brine recipe they want to share?
I haven't tried this recipe yet, but I have one of her books and she really knows her stuff: Urban Preserving: Refrigerator Dill Pickles - Food in Jars
I made some similar to this. I personally didn't care for them but my kids ate them all up in no time.
Do you have to use white vinegar for making the fridge pickles? I prefer either an Asian (rice) vinegar or a cider one.
I think my ultimate favorite pickle though is the bread and butter one. Along with pickled mushrooms. Can small button mushrooms be done at the same time as the fridge cukes? In the same manner? Would I have to boil the 'shrooms first?
Am I making any sense?
I don't have any ideas about this recipe, but I'll be watching this thread to get ideas
I am a barrel briner and my pickle bible is The Joy of Pickling and that's where I have my tried and true brine.
So what's the recipe?
So what's the recipe?
In my 25 gal barrel I layer in grape leaves, cukes, dill, spices, garlic....then in a gal container 2/3 cup salt, 3/4 cup vinegar, fill rest of it with water, shake and pour until you cover your cukes. Cover with grape leaves. Now the hard part.....wait 3 weeks.