We Love Pickles!

The garden has been producing buckets and buckets of cucumbers, like these:


So after a wash, these got brined for 24 hours or so:

Then Dan chopped them up into spears:

Then the spears got stuffed into pint jars(with dill seed and mustard seed at the bottom):

Here are four, ready to go:

The jars then got filled with the hot vinegar/pickling spice mixture:

Here are the 11 pint jars we've done so far. We've opened up 2 jars already and eaten their contents. Yummy! As I type, there is double that amount of cucumbers sitting in a brining solution, waiting to be pickled, this time in quarts. We found that a pint of pickles lasts one meal, and leaves the kids begging for more.