Grandma Kate Eastman's 9 Day Sweet Pickles Recipe
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Ingredients: 2 gallons cucumbers - sliced
2 cups coarse (Kosher) salt
2 gallons of water
Sugar as directed day 6 and 7
Pickling spices: 1 whole box wrapped in cheese cloth and tied with string as directed
2 T Alum day 5
10 pints Vinegar day 6
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Directions:Day 1 and 2: Mix cucumbers, salt and water and leave in brine for 2 days.
Day 3: Pour off brine and cover cucumbers with fresh water.
Day 4: Drain cucumbers and again cover with fresh water.
Day 5: Drain cucumbers and save water. Heat water with 2 tablespoons alum to boiling, then pour over drained cucumbers. Leave until cool.
Day 6: Combine 10 pints white vinegar, 12 cups sugar and pickling spices. Heat to boil and simmer 1 hour. Pour over drained cucumbers.
Day 7: Drain syrup and spices into large pot, add 2 cups sugar, bring to boil, cool then pour over drained cucumbers.
Day 8: Drain syrup and spices into large pot, add 2 cups sugar, bring to boil, cool then pour over drained cucumbers.
Day 9: Drain syrup into pot and heat. Pack cucumbers into clean canning jars and pour hot syrup into jars. Discard spice bag. Process in hot water bath canner. |
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Notes: We all loved Grandma's sweet pickles. When I decided to try and make them I didn't have the recipe. I only had a sketchy letter from grandma to my mother, Catherine, with directions like, "Add a handful of salt, you know how much that is". Well, I didn't!!! She died when I was 12 and she lived far enough away that I only got to see her a few times a year. So the quest for the recipe started. After a few years and lots of letters to various relatives, my sister-in-law, Lynda and I pieced together a recipe that would be as close as we could get. I tried to make them one year but everyone complained so much about the smell they never got finished. Linda, on the other hand did make them and entered them into the Roscommon fair.
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