1 qt cucumbers, shredded
1 qt onions, shredded
1 qt cabbage, shredded
1 qt celery, shredded
1 qt peppers, shredded
1/2 cup pickling/course salt
4 cups white vinegar (or 3 cups pickling vinegar)
5 cups sugar
1/2 cup flour (little less if using pickling vinegar)
1 Tbsp mustard seed
1 Tbsp celery seed
5 Tbsp dry mustard
1 Tbsp turmeric
I like to use my Bosch shredder for processing the veggies. I don't use the finest shredder, but the one next up from that. Soak veggies in salt overnight. Drain in the morning, after your house smells verrrry oniony, and cook up the brine in a large pot. Like I mean large, especially if you triple the recipe like I do! Add drained veggies to brine and cook the whole mess for 10 minutes. Pour into hot jars. This beautiful golden concoction will seal as it cools.
NOTE: you may substitute veggies like crazy. Basically, you want your onions and celery to remain the same, but the rest is very interchangeable. I like to think "color" so whatever combination you use should be colorful. Here are some options: zucchini instead of cukes; carrots in place of some of the peppers; turnips (no kidding) instead of cabbage (they taste the same or pretty close); cauliflower...use whatever you have on hand. The flavors mostly come from the brine anyway, so it's the color-figuring-out-part that's important (to me). With these thoughts I shall close.
3 comments:
This sounds great! Two questions:
How do you use this? (Like, all the ways, not just the obvious.)
Is it quite, quite sweet? And if so, can I cut back on sugar without messing it up?
Whoops. Three questions. :)
In hot dogs, hamburgers, tartar sauces, salad dressings (think Thousand Island) and in sandwich spreads and meat fillings and of course, ALWAYS on fried potatoes!
You can cut back the sugar to 4 cups but you'd want to cut the vinegar back then as well. Maybe 3 1/2 cups? Sweetener or honey are fine substitutes. One recipe asks for 6 cups sugar for this amount of veggies. eeeuw!
I wrote on this recipe that I always triple it. Well. I got carried away picking veggies last night and it's a quad or even a "five". What's the word for that? Should keep us in pickles for a year or two, eh?!
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