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Place the peppercorns pepper flakes garlic dill seed and fresh dill into a 1 gallon crock. Use dill at the yellow flower stage for the best flavor.
Throw in a few more pieces of dill.
Making dill pickles in a crock. If you can t get fresh ones just soak the ones you have in some ice cold water to freshen them up. Then place them in the crock along with the dill leaves garlic and peppercorns. Next dissolve the sea salt in half a gallon of water and pour it into the crock.
Now the pickles will float and you want them submerged. Place water vinegar and salt into crock stirring to dissolve salt. Place a weighted plate in the solution to keep cucumbers immersed.
Cover crock with a tight fitting plastic bag or plastic wrap. Place the peppercorns pepper flakes garlic dill seed and fresh dill into a 1 gallon crock. Add the cucumbers to the crock on top of the aromatics.
Pour the brine mixture over the cucumbers in. Place ingredients in bottom of crock with cucumbers. Pour mixture water vinegar salt over cucumbers.
Throw in a few more pieces of dill. Submerge pickles under water by placing a plate on top weighed down by a jar of water. When a film appears just skim it off.
Try tasting smaller pickles after 5 days. Soak the cucumbers in ice water for a few hours unless they were just picked fresh from the vine. Place the garlic cloves dill and tannin containing leaves in the bottom of a clean sanitized fermenting crock.
Remove the cucumbers from the ice water and place them on top of the garlic dill and leaves. Pour in the pickling salt. Stir stir stir until the salt is well dissolved.
Break off the dill from the stem and peel the garlic. Put half of your cut cucumbers in the bottom of the crock. Pour half of the vinegar salt mixture on them and top with dill garlic and red pepper flakes.
Here is a simple method for making crock pickles. In my continuing endeavor to eat only things we produce nothing processed i figured it was time to make some snacks most of my pickles in the pantry i had canned are gone so i figured i would make some crock pickles. Use dill at the yellow flower stage for the best flavor.
If you can t find any dill in the yellow flower stage then use fresh dill stems or dill seeds. Place a layer of dill just on top of the grape leaves and another layer at the top of the jar. Almost any crisp vegetable you can imagine can go into a dill crock.
Green beans are the only vegetables that require blanching for three minutes before putting the crock. Remove any air bubbles by stirring with a thin spatula. Step 15 screw on the lids to the jars.
Set the jars in the pot of boiling water for 15 minutes to properly remove all air from the jars.