My husband likes to can pickles. It's one of those arts he learned as a kid growing up with a large garden and 5 brothers. With that many kids to feed, it was a matter of survival. They all had to tend, weed and pick the garden, but not all participated in canning (unless they had to). The past couple of years he has been a little frustrated by not having enough cucumbers of the right size at the same time. This year he remedied that problem by planting 4 plants. Boy, do we have cucumbers. He achieved his goal and has been making pickles all day. This is his second pickle canning day and I think he thinks he has enough. The first picture shows those cucumbers that were a little bigger than he wanted for pickles, but that was only half the picking for today. The second is a shot of some of the pickles he made today. I will have to start making some yummy cucumber salads, etc. There are 2 really good ones in our cookbook and if you don't have one, you might want to go to our website www.homecookingcentral.com to purchase one. Do you have any cucumber recipes you'd like to share? You can add them to the comment portion of this post or you can go to our website and click on Submit a recipe. I'd love to hear from you. As you can see, when the crop comes in, you need to do something with them.
So how many cans of pickles did he end up with?
Posted by: Jeneen | July 08, 2008 at 02:53 PM
He did kosher dill spears, slices, sweet and bread and butters. He did 27 qts. and 22 pints. Now he's doing peppers, ceyenne, banana,and jalapanos. And then there's corn.
Posted by: Nana | July 08, 2008 at 07:54 PM