I've been wanting to try my hand at pickling for a while now, but for some reason I've been a little intimated of the process. This weekend we ended up with a surplus of cucumbers and I knew it was.

Homemade Pickles Cucumbers is perfect for pickling because it produces small, crisp cucumbers (1 to 5 inches long). However, the cukes are just as good when…

Dill and Cucumber Fermented Pickles Take for one liter jar: 1 lbs. of 4-inch pickling cucumbers 2 tbsp. dill seed or 2 to 3 heads fresh or dry dill weed (seeds not the plant itself is important) 2 cloves garlic …

This simple recipe yields 4-5 pints of pickles and uses the boiling water bath canning process. Reduced-Sodium Sliced Sweet Pickles . 4 pounds (3- to 4-inch) pickling cucumbers . Brining solution: …

This simple recipe yields 4-5 pints of pickles and uses the boiling water bath canning process. Reduced-Sodium Sliced Sweet Pickles . 4 pounds (3- to 4-inch) pickling cucumbers . Brining solution: …

Claire and I were up early boiling the big pot of water, sterilizing jars and converting cucumbers to pickles . Thought there would be a greater reduction in cucumbers but while we were pickling the plants outpaced us. …

However, they're not yet pickled . It had been a week, but the insides didn't taste pickled . We put the cucumber spears back in the jar along with the rest of the still-pickling pickling cucumbers . …

Pickling cucumbers are in the local farmers markets and you know what that means, don't you? Time to make some dill pickles . When I make pickles I have to hide them from my husband or he will eat every last one before …

I now know that cucumbers do great in our yard. Next year, I think I will grow 8-10 pickling cucumber plants and only 2-3 salad cucumber plants . Is anything exceeding your expectations in the garden? …

Now, I make awesome pickled green beans, but I've never done cucumbers . So I grab “The Joy of Pickling,” by Linda Ziedrich and start thumbing through its 400 pages of dreams. I have other books that are prettier and made …

Pickles . July 22, 2011 by Alyson. Yesterday, I made pickles . It was my first attempt and I have to say it was fairly successful. I had a cucumber leftover from my CSA and I've been meaning to try my hand at pickling. …

1/4 cup sugar; 1 teaspoon salt; 1/2 cup rice vinegar; 4 pickling or slicing cucumbers , sliced lengthwise, seeded and thinly sliced; 1 shallot, thinly sliced; 10 whole cilantro leaves; 1/4 cup red pepper, julienne (about 1 inch long) …

It's an Arkansas pickling cucumber plant from some heirloom seeds I bought a year or two ago. I've tried several times and ways growing from seed and haven't succeeded yet. This year we'd all but given up on our garden. …

The tiny cucumbers needed to make cornichons are difficult to find raw. To fulfill my homemade pickle desires, I did what any self-respecting homestead would do: grow my own. I started with Parisian Pickling Cucumber …

Although sweet pickles are my favorite, bread and butter pickles run a close second. Their sweet and tangy crunch are pretty irresistible. Here's how you make them: start with pickling cucumbers . …

Japanese cukes: Perfect for pickling The most consumed vegetable in Japan is the Japanese cucumber.