Best Mrs Lees Nice Cucumbers Recipes

Old South Cucumber Lime Pickles image

Provided by 2SpiceItUp

Categories Vegetable

Time P2D

Yield 4-6 quarts, 4-6 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 8

7 lbs cucumbers, sliced
1 cup mrs. wages pickling lime
2 gallons water
8 cups distilled white vinegar, 5% acidity
8 cups sugar
1 tablespoon salt
2 teaspoons mixed pickling spices
1 (1 ounce) bottle green food coloring, it may not take that much, but you want them a very dark green color

Steps:

Soak clean cucumbers in water and lime mixture in crockery or enamel ware for 2 hours or overnight. Do not use aluminum ware.
Remove sliced cucumbers from lime water. Discard lime water. Rinse 3 times in fresh cold water. Soak 3 hours in ice water.
combine vinegar, sugar, salt and mixed pickling spices in a large pot. Bring to a low boil, stirring until sugar dissolves. Remove syrup from heat ad add sliced cucumbers. Soak 5-6 hours or overnight.
Boil slices in the syrup 35 minutes. Fill sterilized jars with hot slices. Pour hot syrup over the slices, leaving 1/2 inch headspace. Cap each jar when filled.
Process pints 10 minutes, quarts 15 minutes in a boiling water bath canner.
Test jars for airtight seals according to manufacturer's instructions. Refrigerate unsealed jars.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 1752.9, Fat 0.9, SaturatedFat 0.3, Sodium 1806.9, Carbohydrate 428.9, Fiber 4, Sugar 413.1, Protein 5.2

Lee Hong's Cucumbers image

Provided by Cathy17

Categories Vegetable

Time 40m

Yield 4-6 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 7

1 tablespoon salt
1 long English cucumber, sliced very thin (do not use short green cucumbers)
6 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 Spanish onion, thinly sliced
8 tablespoons white vinegar
6 tablespoons water

Steps:

Slice cucumbers as thin as you can.
Arrange cucumber slices in a bowl in layers, salting between layers. Sprinkle the cukes with salt, don't over salt them.
Let stand 2 hours.
Rinse with cold water until no salt remains. Make sure you rinse salt out of cukes extremely well or the salty taste will stay.
Drain well and pat dry.
Thinly slice red onions and break apart rings.
In a separate bowl, mix sugar and oil, then add vinegar and water.
Add more sugar or vinegar if not sweet or sour enough.
It should have a nice tangy taste.
Add onions and cucumber to vinegar dressing.
Mix well.
Cover and refrigerate for a couple hours, stirring frequently to blend flavors.
Serve with steak, chicken, at a BBQ or with a deli style sandwich!
This doubles and even triples well! This makes alot of dressing for the cukes, but I like it that way so the cukes are totally immersed and absorb the flavor.
Edited to add: you can also add fresh dill weed to the vinegar dressing if you wish.
Edited June 2011 to include: You can also try using Splenda in place of sugar. It doesn't alter the taste too much and I have successfully used it in place of sugar. It depends on your tastebuds.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 161.8, Fat 6.9, SaturatedFat 0.9, Sodium 1749, Carbohydrate 24.5, Fiber 0.8, Sugar 21.4, Protein 0.8

Cucumber Lime Pickles image

Provided by Nancy Sneed

Categories Canning

Time P2DT9h35m

Yield 6-8 pints

Number Of Ingredients 10

7 lbs cucumbers, sliced lengthwise
2 cups pickling lime
2 gallons water
2 quarts vinegar
8 cups sugar
1 tablespoon salt
3 drops green food coloring (optional)
2 quarts vinegar
8 cups sugar
1 tablespoon salt

Steps:

Soak the cucumbers lime and water in enamel or crockery for 24 hours, stirring occasionally.
(Do not use Aluminum Ware).
Remove from lime water and rinse in 3 cool waters.
Soak 3 additional hours in ice and water.
Remove carefully to drain.
Mix syrup ingredients and stir until dissolved.
Pour over the cucumbers.
Let set 5 or 6 hours or overnight.
Add pickling spices to taste.
(Use whole cloves or allspice).
Boil mixture for 35 minutes.
Fill sterilized jars with cucumber slices and pour syrup over cucumbers leaving 0.125 inch head space.
Seal jars.
If syrup does not cover cucumbers while boiling, mix partial recipe of syrup and add it.