DILL & GARLIC REFRIGERATOR PICKLES BY THE BUCKET-FULL

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This is a recipe that I've already requested twice, so I'm posting it to avoid losing it. My husband's best friend's mother makes them every summer and everyone just loves them. She makes them in ice cream pails. I prefer to make them in large jars (like the gallon jars that commercial pickles come in for restaurant use). The pickled onions taste great too! My husband and step-daughter used to fight over them! My dad's wife loves to use the pickles and the onions together on buttered bread for a pickle sandwich! I saw some similar recipes that claimed to be ready earlier, but noticed most didn't have any sugar. These aren't sweet like bread and butter pickles. We have snitched some from the jar earlier than a week, and they were good, but the best flavor is after a week or two. If your cucumbers aren't producing fast enough to make the whole batch, you can refrigerate the extra brine until you have more cucumbers, and then just reheat before using. I've tried these with sliced pickles, but I felt they ended up too sour to be used as hamburger dills, at least for my taste. I think they're best as spears or, if you're using small cucumbers, left whole.

Provided by SrtaMaestra

Categories     Lunch/Snacks

Time 20m

Yield 2 ice cream buckets

Number Of Ingredients 9

3 quarts water
1 quart white distilled vinegar
1 cup canning salt
1/2 cup sugar
garlic clove, to taste. I use 4-8 cloves
fresh dill, to taste. (at least 2-3 sprigs per bucket)
onion, to taste. (I recommend 1 large per bucket)
16 cups pickling cucumbers, sliced into spears if using larger cucumbers
1 1/4 teaspoons alum

Steps:

  • Combine water, vinegar, canning salt, and sugar in saucepan and bring to boil. Keep hot.
  • In the meantime, scrub cucumbers, cutting into spears if using larger cucumbers. Mince or crush garlic. (The smaller the pieces, the stronger the flavor). Slice onion.
  • Pack cucumbers into buckets or jars, layering with garlic, onion, and dill. Sprinkle alum over the top.
  • Poor hot brine over the cucumbers.
  • Refrigerate at least one week before sampling. If kept in airtight container, pickles will keep for months in the refrigerator.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 404, Fat 0.9, SaturatedFat 0.3, Sodium 56656, Carbohydrate 80.4, Fiber 4.2, Sugar 64, Protein 5.4

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