Awesome Easy Sweet Pickles Recipes

BEST EVER SWEET PICKLES

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.

EASY SWEET PICKLES

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.).

AWESOME & EASY SWEET PICKLES

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).

HOLLY'S SWEET PICKLES

Steps:

• In an enamel or stainless steel pan shake together lime and 1/2 quart water. pour into pan. Add 4 quarts water. Scrub and slice cucumbers and add to pan. Soak overnight.
• Next day rinse till water isn't cloudy.
• Let cucumbers soak in cold water 1 hour. Rinse again.
• In big kettle add the other 5 ingredients.
• Let mixture come to a boil. Boil hard 15 minutes. Put into jars add 1/8 t alum to each quart. Process 10 minutes. You can also use the water bath method on these.

FANTASTIC SWEET PICKLES- EASY!

Steps:

• Scrub cucumbers and steralize jars and lids. Add lids to a small saucepan of warm water and put on the stove on med-high heat.
• Pack cucumber in jars, but not too tight. Add pickling spice, canning salt, powdered alum and white vinegar. Then fill jars with cold water until pickles are covered. Seal with warm lids and screw on hand tight. Shake vigorously to dissolve salt & alum.
• Put pickles in the pantry for 2 months.
• IMPORTANT!
• After two months have past and you are ready to use a jar of pickles, dump the brine and scrap off the pickling spices. Then you need to slice the pickles and add 1 cup of sugar. Shake pickles and put in the refrigerator, turning often to dissolve the sugar.

3 DAY SWEET PICKLES

Steps:

• Day 1-3 - Soak pickles in water and salt for 3 days.
• Day 3 - Drain and rinse pickles. Mix 2 cups of vinegar to 1 cup water. Pour over pickles. Bring to boil. Put in jars.
• Mix 3 cups of sugar, 2 cups of vinegar and ½ tsp allspice. Heat. Pour over top of pickles and add a pinch of alum to each jar. Seal.