Poppin’ and Lockin’

One of our friends gave us a bunch of cucumbers, so we thought we would go ahead and pickle them.  Our cucumber plants haven’t produced very many cucumbers this go round.  I sliced up all the cucumbers, and some jalapenos for the pickling process.  

 

Here is the water bath (back) and the pickling solutions (front).  The pickling solution is 3 cups White Vinegar, 3 cups water, and 3 teaspoons pickling salt.

Here we’ve added the jalapenos, cucumbers, garlic, mustard seeds, and some dill to the jars.  Now we put the lids on and drop them in the water bath for about 5 minutes.

 

Here they are in the water bath, this helps remove excess air which creates the vacuum when they cool.

The finished products, we ended up making 14 jars and two of them didn’t seal so we now have 12 jars of pickles that will be ready in about 3 months (2 months now since I’m slow at writing blogs).  Next project will be to pickle some okra and maybe some green beans.