Helen Telega's Refrigerator Pickles

Summary

Yield
Prep Time30 minutes

Description

These are my favorite pickles !!

Ingredients

  • 3 lb med. pickling cukes
  • 5 c water
  • 1 1⁄4 c white or cider vinegar
  • 1 c sugar
  • 1⁄4 c salt
  • 2 dill flower heads
  • 3 garlic cloves
  • 1 chili pepper
  • 1 tsp pickling spice

Instructions

Bring to a boil water, vinegar, sugar, salt. Let cool. Place the rest of the ingredients in a sterilized jar and pour cooled liquid over them. Put in refrigerator and eat within 1-2 days or 1-2 weeks.

Notes

This recipe is not for canning.

Ingredients

Cucumbers

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Cucumbers are about 95% water which makes them a favorite to eat out in the field to quench our thirst. We grow the basic varieties of cucumbers used for slicing or pickling.

Garlic

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Garlic is an amazing crop that not only adds wonderful flavor to anything you cook, it has many healing properties. I know many people that eat raw garlic to fight away colds and other symptoms. Garlic is also one of the easier crops for us to grow. We plant the seeds in early Fall and store them in the ground under a nice layer of mulch. a few weeks before we harvest the garlic from the ground we pick off the "scapes" which is essentially the flower. We snap this off to cause the plant to produce a larger bulb. The best part is you can eat the scapes. After we havest the garlic we cure it hanging in our barn so that it will store for the rest of the winter and be ready for planting again in the fall. Almost a third of our garlic crop is saved as seed for the next crop.

Peppers(hot)

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Pick your poison!! We love to grow all kinds of hot peppers. We range the heat from mild to knock your socks off, put a tear in your eye spicy hot.

Dill

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This herb is another we grow a lot of.  It is great to flavor vegetables, eggs, and salad dressings. We let some of the plants flower so those who like to make pickles will have dill flower heads available.
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