Things You'll Need:
- 1 quart jar or bowl
- 1/4 cup kosher or pickling salt
- 1 tablespoon pickling spices
- 2 or 3 garlic cloves, sliced
- pickling cucumbers to fill jar
- 3 cups water approximately
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Step 1
The first step to make half sour pickles is to put the salt into 3 cups water and mix until salt is dissolved.
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Step 2
Place washed cucumbers into jar along with the garlic and spices. You are almost done with your half sour pickle recipe, I told you it was easy!
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Step 3
Pour the salt water mixture into the jar to a level that covers the cucumbers. If necessary add more water. If the cucumbers float, weigh them down with a clean glass or bowl. They must be covered by the water, any that are exposed will rot. There is nothing worse than rotten half sour pickles!
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Step 4
Cover loosely with a paper towel, do not seal. Let sit out on the counter for 3 to 4 days. You want to see the little bubbles form, this means your half sour pickles are fermenting and the recipe is going well.
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Step 5
Move to the refrigerator and chill and you've done it! You made half sour pickles.
Comments
terpsichor said
on 10/6/2009 OK! I made these pickles this weekend following this recipe exactly, and they turned out GREAT! A couple of things I did was to scrub the pickles very well, and then I soaked them in my kitchen sink with cool water just to cover and and poured in about 1/2 cup of white vinager. The reason I did this was to kill off any mold that might be lurking on the skin of the pickling cucumbers. I left them there for about an hour. I also made sure that all the ends were removed. I sliced the ends thinly to make sure that no stems were left on. I also sliced the cucumbers into spears because all I had was pint sized canning jars and I could fit more pickles into the jars that way. I then just followed the instructions and weighted down the cukes in the brine so none were poking up out of the brine. I did not see bubbles but the cukes were tightly packed when I first put them in, but then they st...
ontomars55 said
on 8/17/2009 tried the recipe - after 4 days I have no bubbles. What should I do? What might I have done wrong?
tylamac said
on 1/19/2009 I never knew it was this easy to make a good pickle. In the south we have pickles like this at baseball games. They must make your mouth pucker and your lips shrivel or they are not sour enough. Thanks for the great recipe!
1kimmi said
on 12/20/2008 Gotta try this one..thanks for sharing!
Moomettesgram said
on 12/6/2008 Will try these next summer ~ my mom and aunts used to pickle cucumbers when I was younger and I miss them ~ nothing like home-made!