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Fill clean jar with veggies. Some people also like to include 1 tsp.
Combine mix with 1 2 cup vinegar and 3 4 cup water.
Make your own dill pickles. Add the spices to the jars. Divide the garlic dill seed and red pepper flakes between the pint jars. 2 smashed cloves 1 teaspoon dill seed and 1 4 teaspoon red pepper flakes if using per jar.
Pack the cucumbers into the jars. Pack the cucumbers into the jars. Whole spices herbs garlic and other ingredients are often added to the pickling liquid to intensify flavors.
For example dill pickles include you guessed it dill seed and fresh dill weed in the brine. To add heat a spicy dill pickle recipe can add red pepper flakes too. When i say dill i mean the full dill plants that look like weeds with large tops and dill seeds.
You can make pickles with the soft young dill fronds you find in the spring but the dill flavour isn t as intense. But don t let that be a deal breaker. You can add dill seeds and even use the same recipe and method and pickle something else.
So here s my adapted version of a homemade refrigerator dill pickle. It s a great way to put those cucumbers to good use and enjoy a delicious pickle too. Make your own dill pickles.
Adapted from diy natural. 1 or 2 cucumbers or 4 mini cucumbers 1 tablespoon dried dill weed or 1 4 cup fresh dill sprigs 3 garlic cloves chopped. Some people also like to include 1 tsp.
2g of onion powder or some chopped fresh onions. For spicy pickles add half a hot pepper or 1 tsp. 3g of crushed red pepper flakes.
Place 2 5 cups 591ml of white vinegar 2 5 cups 591ml of water and 1 4 cup 59ml of pickling salt in a saucepan. Slice your cucumber and put the slices in the jars on top of the garlic dill and other flavor ingredients. Remove the water vinegar salt mixture from the heat and pour over cucumbers.
Cover cucumbers completely and leave about 1 4 inch of space at the top of the jar. Put the lid on. Fill clean jar with veggies.
Combine mix with 1 2 cup vinegar and 3 4 cup water. Bring to a boil and pour over veggies in jar. Cap jar with lid and ring.
Dissolve cup salt into 2 gallons of water. Pour over cucumbers and let stand 12 hours in the refrigerator. Drain and cut into halves or quarters.
Combine 1 qt vinegar cup salt 1 4 cup sugar and 2 quarts water into a stainless steel pot. About 14 heads of fresh dill 3 heads to 11 2 heads per pint jar or if you can t get fresh dill it s so easy to grow plant it next to your cucumbers just use 41 2 tbsp dill seed 1 tbsp to 11 2 teaspoons per pint jar jar grabber to pick up the hot jars.