Refrigerator Pickles

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Mar 31, 2000

Refrigerator pickles are a great way to preserve this time of year. You can experiment with different herbs, vegetables, vinegars, and sweeteners, and get some ideas of what you'd like to pickle in larger batches when the garden is producing. From the simplest recipes of marinating cucumbers and onions in a little vinegar and water (try adding lots of black pepper, salt, and tomatoes, too!), to making brines and pickling cauliflower, onions, eggplant, carrots, and more.

Here's an easy way to a quart of pickled carrots. Try using more or less sugar, adding other vegetables, and test other herbs to use as flavoring.

Pickled Carrots

2 t garlic, minced

1 large bay leaf

3/4 t canning salt

1 cayenne pepper, opt'l

½ C sugar

½ C water

1 1/4 C white wine vinegar

½ C vegetable oil

1 small onion, cut in slivers

2 - 2 ½ C mini carrots, or peel large carrots, cut in quarters lengthwise, and then in 2 inch pieces

Place first 8 ingredients in a 3 quart saucepan, and bring to a simmer. Cover and continue to simmer, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes. Add the carrots and onion, and continue to simmer for about 5 minutes, or until the carrots are just starting to get tender. Remove from heat, leave covered, and let marinate until room temperature. Pour into a quart canning jar (or 2 pint jars), and refrigerate. Keeps up to 3 weeks in the refrigerator.

Here are some sites with more Refrigerator Pickle recipes:

http://www.ichef.com/ichef-recipes/Prese... an easy cucumber recipe

http://www.recipe.com/whatcook/recipes/r... Cucumbers and Red Bell Peppers

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres... Christmas Refrigerator Pickles

If you are always looking for new how-to's about canning, freezing, and dehydrating, and want to try new recipes, check out Home Food Preservers Magazine at http://members.aol.com/preservers/index.... Be sure to check this site for information on our newest publication, The Preserving Cook, a newsletter dedicated to cooking with what you've put up. It will be filled with oodles and oodles of good recipes for using all those goodies that you've canned, frozen and dehydrated.

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