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I really wanted to do some pickles this year - my favorite are bread & butter pickles but afraid my cucumbers did horrid this year and have only gotten a few cucs for the table and that's it. If we would just get a good rain - I've tried watering but there is just so much and it's hard to get to the back where the cucs are.

They must have pickle recipies on the iternet somewhere or you could check like an old timey cookbook. They must have pickle recipies. In fact I'm pretty sure they have pickled zuccchini. Another thing you could make would be french fried zuchini. or even fried pickles. I like to eat those sometimes when I go out to dinner.

I have not made any pickles or relishes in a very long time. I have a recipe for you from my mom, though. I never saw her use it, but she gave me this one for Snappy Dilled Beans. 4lbs whole green beans, mustard seed, dill seed, dried minced garlic, crushed red pepper.1/2 C pickling salt, 5 C Vinegar, 5 C water. Wash, drain and cut beans to fit pint jars; pack into hot sterilized jars with 1/2 tsp. each mustard seed and dill seed, and 1/8 tsp. each minced garlic and crushed red pepper. Combine vinegar, water, and salt. Heat to boiling. Pour over beans with 1/2 inch head space. Process in waterbath 5 minutes. If I remember correctly, I also pickled okra with this same recipe, and it was good.

I wish I knew how. My daughter loves pickles. When she was going through chemotherapy she would be so sick that I couldnt let her eat them. Now that she's in remission she orders pickles on everything. I would like to grow tomatoes someday. Unfortunately I dont have any grass where I live. I have heard you can grow them in a bucket. That's not how my dad use to do it. I live in a city and I live right in the center where its busy from traffic and business. I dont have the proper surroundings to plant anything. SOmeday I will you can bet on that. dl

We have always liked the fourteen day sweet pickles - they take a little more time and work but are well worth it: Wash seven pounds of cucumbers and place in crock. Make enough salt brine to cover (I use a ratio of 1 cup of pickling salt to two cups of water - the recipe says strong enough "to float an egg"). Allow pickles to stand in brine five days. Drain. Cover with cold water and let stand two days. Drain. Cut into slices and cover with boiling water with two tablespoons alum. Let stand 24 hours. Drain. Cover with syrup of 6 pounds sugar and 3 pints vinegar - bring to boil and cover pickles. Add pickling spice as desired. Heat pickles and syrup just to boiling for three more days. On third day, heat and seal in jars.

Ohh I wish I lived close by i would love to have some of those pickled pickles..lol..love to say that..never tried pickled zuccini so that would be fun to try.. Thanks for sharing as always!

I keep forgeting to take a jar myself but it sounds like you still have one stached away for me anyways lol. And yes they are good.

Hi Bob wow if i would be ur neighbour i might have bought big jar from market and gave it to u for some nice pickle. i would like cucumber pickle Well we do make our pickle but its of Mango, Carrot, and some other vegies and its tasty. sure not all from what we grow Take care

You neighbours are very very lucky. Can I send u my address to courier some jars?

Darn, you should save those and use them for Christmas gifts! By the way, I'd never tasted a banana pepper before nor heard of it. I had a sample at the grocery store yesterday of a sub sandwich and asked what those things were on the bottom that were so tasty--they were banana peppers! So I went to the aisle they told me and bought a jar. I added them to my egg-beater omelet this morning and mom and I thought they were yummy!!

I have never pickled anything although i use to watch my Dad make pickles. I do however buy (ashamed to admit) dilled zucchini with the carrots and cauliflower in it.I love it but a little goes a long way.

Hi Grandpa Bob. Well, you are now all pickled I wish I could have tasted some of them pickles. Did you make any of those bell peppers? I wonder what they would taste like pickled. My friend's friend does pickled onions and chutneys and I have tow big jar o pickled onions an one jar of the chutney but I'm not too keen on the chutney. I have never done any pickling before and don't think I will as my garden is too small to grow anything except tomatos and our weather is not so good, don't get much sunshine in the U.K. Carry on pickling GRANDPA BOB. Tamara