Comments on: Bread & Butter Pickles, Squash Pickles, and Puttin’ Up More ‘Maters

By: Sandy Grant

Sandy Grant — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:08:09 +0000

Oh my gosh……..it grouped the recipe when I posted it. If you have a problem understanding let me know.

By: Sandy Grant

Sandy Grant — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:04:11 +0000

WONDERFUL green tomato pickles recipe from my mom. A little time consuming but well worth the results. I also use this recipe for squash and cucumber pickles. They are very good also but to me nothing beats green tomatoes.

10# sliced green tomatoes – 5 # sugar+ 4 cups
7# sliced green tomatoes – 5# sugar + 1 1/2 cups
LIME WATER
3 cups lime
2 gallons water
SYRUP
sugar 1tsp whole cloves (heaping)
2 qts. vinegar 1 tsp allspice
1 cinnamon stick 1 Mace or nutmeg
1 tsp Celery seeds 1 tsp ginger
1 – Soak tomatoes in the lime water for about 24 hrs. Remove from lime water and soak in clear water 4 hours. change the water hourly.
2 – soak overnight in syrup
3 – Boil 45 minutes put in hot jars and seal. Turn upside down to cool
Makes 10 – 12 pints
ENJOY…………..I WOULD LOVE SOME FEEDBACK

By: admin

admin — Tue, 31 May 2011 20:48:14 +0000

Good eyes Rena! In regards to the amount of sugar, it is only 5 cups. It is a typo, and should have been listed as part of the ingredients only once. My mistake…sorry!

You know honestly, we’ve never let them sit for any length of time. A week, two weeks, a month, just whenever we ran out, we’d open the next jar. I know that there are recipes that call for this, “a sit period,” but these aren’t. This, plus the fact my bunch has never been one to let ANY type of food product have too much of a break period. That’s why we got it…to eat it, not look at it! LOL!

Thanks for letting us know that Deb had screwed up! Not really, this one was all me!

By: Rena Dagenais

Rena Dagenais — Tue, 31 May 2011 20:27:57 +0000

I am anxious to try your pickle recipe , however, I have a couple of questions. You have 5 cups of sugar written twice ,,,,Is this a type error? Also how long after they go into the jars before you can eat them? Thank you. I have never done this before.