how do you make homemade brine pickles?

Question

my grandmother made these for us when I was a child. Yes salty, but crunchy and a treat. I know they use water and salt(enough to float an egg). But are the cucumbers boiled before canning and do you add alum and lime? Lime tends to make the pickles soft and less crunchy. Since the salt is a perservative, I don't think you need to add alum. Any thoughts or old family recipes for these out there. Help greatly appreciated. Kind regards to all.

Answer 1

These are my two favorite sites for recipes. On cooks.com, I searched by "brine for pickles" and there are a bunch of recipes. Hope this helps you.

Answer 2

The only time you "cook" the cukes is in the canning process.

You don't need to add lime. Just wash the cukes and cut off both ends. Cut them if you're going to, and stuff the mason jar full. Add 1/2 teaspoon of pickling spices, if you want garlic, add a clove, and you probably want dill, so add 2-3 springs per quart. Then add your brine, and waterbath the pickles to seal them.

The brine? For every quart of cider vinegar, 5% strength, you add 2/3 cup of canning salt. Canning salt is pretty fine, and it's not iodized. If you use regular noniodized salt, you probably need to use about 3/4 cup instead.

Actually, "brine pickles" isn't something you eat. You can store your cucumbers for *years* until you get time to process them by putting them in a barrel with a *really* salty brine. When you have time to can pickles, you de-brine them with fresh water, and can them as if they were fresh. Sometimes, manufacturers hold cukes for 5 to 10 years this way....

Answer 3

We add alum to our sweet pickles - they add/keep the crunch that we like. I don't know about only having them in salt water. All pickle recipes I've ever used have vinegar after the original salt water brining. And most have lots of sugar, too.

Answer 4

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