Grandma Delleplain Kosler Dill Pickles Recipes

Steps:

• Pour 1/2 gallon of water into a large container or pot. Cover loosely and allow to sit for 24 hour to allow dissolved chlorine to escape.
• Crisp cucumbers by storing in the refrigerator or soaking in very cold water for 1 hour.
• Bring 1 cup water to a boil in a saucepan. Add salt and stir to combine. Set aside to cool.
• Wash cucumbers in cold water and remove any blossoms that may be clinging to them. Quarter large cucumbers lengthwise. Cut medium cucumbers in half lengthwise. Leave gherkin-sized cucumbers whole.
• Peel and gently crush garlic cloves, but don't splinter them into fragments.
• Pour cooled salt water into a 1/2-gallon Mason jar. Add cucumbers, garlic, dill, and dried chile peppers, arranged attractively. Pack cucumbers tightly; they will shrink as they pickle. Fill the jar with the dechlorinated water until cucumbers are just covered to avoid overly diluting the brine.
• Loosely cover the jar and set aside at room temperature. Set the jar on a dish if it is very full, to catch any dribbles. Give the pickles 12 to 24 hours to begin fermenting. Refrigerate them, in brine and loosely covered, as they approach the stage of pickling you prefer: new, half-sour, or sour. Don't overshoot the mark, as refrigeration slows, but does not stop, fermentation.

Steps:

• Wash cucumbers using cloth and cold water.
• Drain, Place in large crock or pot.
• Mix 1 1/2 cups salt and 32 cups water to make 5% brine. If you need to, mix more in same proportions to cover cucumbers.
• Poor brine over cucumbers and let stand 24hrs, then drain.
• Wash and sterilize jars and lids. Keep jars in boiling hot water untill ready to use. Keep lids with seals in simmering (NOT BOILING)water untill ready to use.
• Combine Vinegar, 3/4 cups salt, sugar, and 9 cups water.
• Tie mixed pickeling spices in cheese cloth and add to vinegar, sugar, salt and water.
• Heat to boiling then discard cheese cloth.
• Pack cucumbers in clean HOT jars.
• Add 2 teaspoons mustard seed, alum, 1-2 garlic cloves, 3 heads dill or 1 tabelspoon dill seed to each jar.
• Cover with boiling water, filling jars 1/2" from top.
• Put seals and lids on, process in a canner. If you don't have a canner, you can cover the jars with BOILING water and place in your oven at 200F for about 20 minutes. The jars and liquid need to be hot in order for it to seal.

Steps:

• In a stockpot, bring water, vinegar and salt to a boil; boil 10 minutes. Pack cucumbers into nine hot quart jars within 1/2 in. of top. Place one dill head, two garlic cloves and two peppers in each jar. , Carefully ladle hot mixture into jars, leaving 1/2-in. headspace. . Remove air bubbles and adjust headspace, if necessary, by adding hot mixture. 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 15 minutes. Remove jars and cool.

Steps:

• Add salt and spices to each jar. Add cucumbers sliced, whole (ends trimmed) or spears, packing them in tightly. Fill jar to within 1/2 inch of the top.
• Add pickling liquid to cover the cucumbers. Put a lid and ring on the jar and shake for a few seconds to distribute the salt and spices evenly.
• Refrigerate for 7 days, shaking the jar for a few seconds every day. These will last approximately 6 months in the refrigerator.

Steps:

• Wash cucumbers thoroughly . Slice in half lengthwise. Peel garlic cloves, and split in half.
• Clean 7 masson jars in boiling hot water with lids and set aside.
• Add garlic, salt, vinegar, and water in a pot and hear to boiling. Remove garlic and put ( 4 ) halves into each jar.
• Pack cucumbers into clean hot jars. Add 2 tablespoons dill seeds and 3 peppercorns to each jar.
• Fill each with boiling pickling syrup to 1/2 inch from top of jars. Seal jars immediatelt. Process in boiling water bath for 10 minutes. Take out of water let set to cool and set aside for a week befor eating.
• For PLAIN DILL PICKLES just omit the garlic from the recipe. This makes 7 ( pint size ) jars of pickles.