Awesome Easy Sweet Pickles Recipes

Steps:

• In a large nonreactive bowl, combine cucumbers, onion and salt. Cover with crushed ice and mix well. Let stand 3 hours. Drain; rinse and drain thoroughly., In a Dutch oven, combine sugar, water, vinegars, mustard seed, celery seed and peppercorns. Bring to a boil, stirring to dissolve sugar. Add cucumber mixture; return to a boil, stirring occasionally. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, 4-5 minutes or until heated through., Carefully ladle hot mixture into 4 hot wide-mouth 1-pint jars, leaving 1/2-in. headspace. Add 3 garlic cloves and 1 bay leaf to each jar. Remove air bubbles and, if necessary, adjust headspace by adding hot pickling liquid. Wipe rims. Center lids on jars; screw on bands until fingertip tight. , Place jars into canner with simmering water, ensuring that they are completely covered with water. Bring to a boil; process for 10 minutes. Remove jars and cool.

Steps:

• In a small saucepan at medium-high heat, combine cider vinegar, salt, sugar, tumeric and mustard seed. Bring to a boil and let cook for 5 more minutes.
• Meanwhile, slice cucumbers and onion. Loosely pack the vegetables in a 1-quart canning jar or other similarly sized container. Pour hot liquid over the vegetables in the container. Refrigerate for 24 hours and enjoy! Keep refrigerated.

Steps:

• Drain juice from bottle and discard juice.
• Slice pickles into quarters and return to jar.
• Add sugar, vinegar,chopped onion and cinnamon stick to jar.
• Shake well, put in refrigerator for three days, shaking frequently.

Steps:

• STEP ONE: Cut cucumbers in 1/2 inch pieces or a little larger and place in a crock or large glass container. Bring the soaking brine to a boil, pour over cut cucumbers, cover with a clean cloth and weigh down with a plate. Cover crock with a clean tea towel.
• Let stand three days.
• STEP TWO: Drain, put back in crock and cover with fresh water. There is no salt added to this.
• Let stand two days.
• STEP THREE: Drain and place back in crock.
• Bring the pickle solution with the alum to a boil and simmer two minutes pour over.
• Stand overnight.
• STEP FOUR: Drain and place back in crock. Make Sweet Pickle brine, bring to a boil and pour over. For three days drain this syrup into a large pot and bring to a boil. Pour back over the cucumber slices. The third day once again bring the syrup to a boil. Put pickles into sterilized jars, pour hot brine over and seal.
• I often replace some of the cucumber pieces with cauliflower chunks, making for a mixed sweet pickle.
• Makes about eight pints.

Steps:

• Drain pickles and reserve the liquid.
• Cut pickles into 1 inch chunks, return to the jar pickles came inches.
• Add the vinegar, whole cloves, and cinnamon to the jar of pickles.
• Add sugar alternating with a little pickle juice to the pickle jar, but make sure all sugar is added to the jar of pickles.
• Add only enough juice to cover pickles.
• (amount may very depending on how the pickles settle in the jar).
• Put lid on and shake the pickle jar until the sugar is dissolved.
• Place in the refrigerator.
• Shake once daily for 7 days.
• (For those that can't wait 7 days to try these pickles. You can dig in early, but please note the pickles are better the longer they set.).

Steps:

• Completely drain the jar of dill pickles leaving pickles in the jar. Set aside.
• Bring all other ingredients to a hard boil.
• Immediately pour over the pickles in the jar.
• Recap tightly and turn jar upside down and allow to cool. (This should reseal jar so that they can be stored indefinitely).
• (I put all the spices, except for the garlic and the cinnamon stick, in a cheesecloth type bag. I press on the bag with a wooden spoon in vinegar/sugar mixture to get more flavor. It isn't necessary, but boiling the spices in a bag keeps them from floating around in the pickles).