Quick Fresh-Pack Dill Pickles

Recipe Ingredients

8 lbs	3632g / 128oz	Pickling cucumbers - (3- to 5-inch size)
2		Water
1 1/4 cups	296ml	Canning or pickling salt*
1 1/2		Vinegar - (5 percent)
1/4 cup	49g / 1.7oz	Sugar
2		Water
2 tablespoons	30ml	Whole mixed pickling spice
3 tablespoons	45ml	Whole mustard seed
14		Fresh dill - or...
4 1/2 tablespoons	67ml	Dill seed

Recipe Instructions

Yield: 7 to 9 pints

Procedure: Wash cucumbers. Cut 1/16-inch slice off blossom end and discard, but leave 1/4-inch of stem attached. Dissolve 3/4 cup salt in 2 gals water. Pour over cucumbers and let stand 12 hours. Drain.

Combine vinegar, 1/2 cup salt, sugar and 2 quarts water. Add mixed pickling spices tied in a clean white cloth. Heat to boiling. Fill jars with cucumbers. Add 1 tsp mustard seed and 1-1/2 heads fresh dill per pint. Cover with boiling pickling solution, leaving 1/2-inch headspace. Adjust lids and process according to the recommendations in Table 1 or use the low-temperature pasteurization treatment. (For more information see "Low-Temperature Pasteurization Treatment".)

Table 1. Recommended process time for Quick Fresh-Pack Dill Pickles in a boiling-water canner.

Style of Pack: Raw. Jar Size: Pints. Process Time at Altitudes of 0 - 1,000 ft: 10 min. 1,001 - 6,000 ft: 15 min. Above 6,000 ft: 20 min.

Style of Pack: Raw. Jar Size: Quarts. Process Time at Altitudes of 0 ~ 1,000 ft: 15 min. 1,001 - 6,000 ft: 20 min. Above 6,000 ft: 25 min.

USDA Agriculture Information Bulletin No. 539 (rev. 1994)

Source:
Cooking Light, Nov/Dec 1994, page 122

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