Pickled Green Beans Quick Refer Style By Freda Recipes

Steps:

• Place the beans in a heatproof container.
• In a pot, heat the vinegar and 2 cups water to a simmer. Take off the heat and add the mustard seeds, salt, sugar, red pepper and garlic. Whisk until the salt and sugar dissolve.
• Pour the liquid over the green beans. Let cool, and then cover and place in the refrigerator. Allow the beans to pickle 24 hours before using. Pickled green beans will keep tightly covered in the refrigerator for up to 1 month.

Steps:

• 1. Wash and clean and snap your beans.
• 2. Cook beans for 1/2 hr over Med. Heat. Immediately Cool beans in Cold Water.
• 3. Now, Bring the water, salt, and vinegar to a boil. Fill & Pack Hot Sterilized Jars with the green beans, Pour Boiling Hot Vinegar solution over the Beans in the Jars and Seal. No Need to Process. Ready in one Month to Eat. TIP: for extra crispness of your beans, add Alum the size of a walnut to the Vinegar Mixture, before filling jars. This is a very Old Method. My Grand Parents always made.

Steps:

• Bring enough water to Boiling to cover green beans, add beans, cook 5 min. Drain the beans from the Boiling water. Immediately place cooked beans into Ice Water. Cool Drain beans from Ice water in collander, and set aside.
• In a sauce pan (non aluminum pan) add together; Dill seeds garlic, Mustard, sugar, pepper, salt, Vinegar and water. Bring this to a boil, and pour over the beans. Cover and keep in refer for about 8 hrs or over night. stir often as you can to mix well.
• Pack into Jars, seal with lids and rings. Keep in refer til serving time. Serve with your main meal. Keeps about 2 weeks well in refer.

Steps:

• Sterilize 6 (1/2 pint) jars with rings and lids and keep hot. Trim green beans to 1/4 inch shorter than your jars.
• In a large saucepan, stir together the vinegar, water and salt. Add garlic and bring to a rolling boil over high heat. In each jar, place 1 sprig of dill and 1/8 teaspoon of red pepper flakes. Pack green beans into the jars so they are standing on their ends.
• Ladle the boiling brine into the jars, filling to within 1/4 inch of the tops. Discard garlic. Seal jars with lids and rings. Place in a hot water bath so they are covered by 1 inch of water. Simmer but do not boil for 10 minutes to process. Cool to room temperature. Test jars for a good seal by pressing on the center of the lid. It should not move. Refrigerate any jars that do not seal properly. Let pickles ferment for 2 to 3 weeks before eating.

Steps:

• Cut green beans to fit inside pint canning jars.
• Place green beans in a steamer over 1 inch of boiling water, and cover. Cook until tender but still firm, for 3 minutes. Plunge beans into ice water. Drain well.
• Pack the beans into four hot, sterilized pint jars. Place 1 clove garlic and 2 sprigs dill weed in each jar, against the glass. Add 1 teaspoon of salt to each jar.
• In a large saucepan over high heat, bring vinegar and water to a boil. Pour over beans.
• Fit the jars with lids and rings and process for 10 minutes in a boiling water bath.

Steps:

• Pack beans into 4 hot 1-pint jars to within 1/2 in. of the top. Add cayenne, garlic and dill seed to jars., In a large saucepan, bring water, vinegar and salt to a boil., Carefully ladle hot liquid over beans, 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 10 minutes. Remove jars and cool.