Greg’s Dill Pickles

Serves: 4  Litres to 47 Litres

Source: Greg

Ingredients: (For Every 4 Pounds of Cucumbers)

  • 4 pounds of small cucumbers
  • Sprays of fresh dill (the spray is the flower portion on the stalk)
  • garlic cloves, pealed
  • 6 cups of water
  • 2 cups of pickling vinegar
  • 1/4 cup pickling salt

Instructions:

  1. Wash cucumbers and clean dill and peal garlic.
  2. 20 minutes before processing, place jars in canner and add hot water and begin heating over medium heat.Keep jars hot until you are ready to fill them.
  3. In a large saucepan, combine water, vinegar and salt and heat until boiling.
  4. 5 minutes before processing, place lids in hot water and keep lids hot until you are ready to use them.
  5. Place a spray of dill and garlic clove in each jar. Pack cucumbers into jars.
  6. Pour hot brine over cucumbers, leaving an 1/8 inch headroom. Seal immediately and place jars in canner. Adjust water level to cover jars by 1 inch. Cover canner and bring to a boil over high heat.
  7. Once a full boil has been reached, begin counting processing time. For 1 litre jars, process for 15 minutes and for 1/2 litre jars, process for 10 minutes.  At the end of processing time, tun off heat and leave jars in canner for 5 minutes. Then carefully remove the jars and place on a heat safe surface.
  8. Do not move the jars for 12 to 24 hours. Store in a cool dark place for 4 to 6 weeks before using.

July 28, 2012 – 47 Litres of Dill Pickles

  1. 1 Bushel of Cucumbers
  2. 3 bunches of Dill
  3. 1 and 1/2 gallons of pickling vinegar
  4. 1 one litre basket of garlic
  5. pickling salt

August 17, 2013 – 42 1/2 Litres

  1. 1 Bushel of cucumbers
  2. 1 1/2 gallons of vinegar
  3. 1 one litre basket of garlic
  4. 3 bunches of dill
  5. pickling salt

August 2014 – 24 Jars

1/2 Bushel cucumbers

August 8, 2015

  1. 1/2 Bushel of cucumbers
  2. 1 1/4 gallons of pickling vinegar
  3. 1 – 2 bunches of dill
  4. pickling salt

August 10, 2021 – 23 quarts of pickles

August 6, 2022 – 26 quarts of pickles

  1. 1/2 bushel of cucumbers
  2. 1 gallon of pickling vinegar
  3. dill and garlic cloves
  4. pickling salt

August 3, 2023 – 21 1/2 quarts of pickles

Pickling crew – Greg, Nora, Zach, Mira, Darcy, Johanna, Marcel, Solveig, Grandma Anne Marie and Grandpa Larry

  1. 1/2 bushel of cucumbers
  2. 1 gall of pickling vinegar
  3. dill and garlic cloves
  4. pickling vinegar