Bread & Butter Freezer Pickles

Bread & Butter Freezer Pickles

Seeing the other pickle recipe inspired me to find a bread and butter pickle (sweet pickle) recipe that didn't require any canning (since I don't know how to do that . . . yet). Here's one that I adapted from recipezaar.com.

7 cups cucumbers, sliced
2 cups sugar
1 cup white vinegar
1 cup onion, sliced
1 teaspoon celery seed
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon black pepper
½ teaspoon turmeric (this gives it that b&b “look”)
1 tablespoon mustard seed

Mix vinegar and sugar until sugar dissolves. (I had to bring it to a boiling point and boil for about 2 minutes to get it to dissolve.)

Then I added the spices to the pan and let it cool just a bit.

Place cucumbers and onions in a large bowl and pour the liquid over them. Refrigerate overnight.

Pack into freezer-safe canning jars (or other suitable containers) and freeze.

Not sure how long these last in the freezer, but I can’t imagine ours going bad before we eat them all!

I got 7 pints from this recipe.

Dill Pickles

This is from Gramma Genevieve from my family...and I'm told it is really yummy and refreshing in the summer! I'll be trying this one very soon, because my kids love pickles and I really enjoy them too!!

Ingredients:

2 quarts of water

1 cup vinegar

1/2 cup sugar

1/4 cup salt (we use less!)

pickling cucumbers

garlic cloves

dill

Directions: 

Boil water, vinegar,sugar and salt until they are dissolved (does not take too long). 

Place pickling cucumbers in mason/canning jar.  (I have a container garden and have used 3 or 4 pickling cucumber..they're about 4 inches long).  Slice, or quarter, them how you would like.  Add 3 garlic cloves (more if you would like) into the jar along with 3 sprigs of dill (we added more as well...probably 6 to 8). 

When water, vinegar, sugar, salt mixture is luke warm, pour over cucumbers/dill/garlic and refrigerate for 24 hours.

Mom used to make this and would get about 8 pints of pickles!