Nanny Vickers’ Homemade Sweet Lime Pickles Recipe
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Ingredients: 7 - 8 lbs cucumbers, cleaned and sliced
3 c lime
2 gal water
Syrup:
1½ qts apple cider vinegar
4½ lb sugar (5 lbs less 1½ c)
5 tsps pickling spices, put in cheesecloth bag and tied up
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Directions:Mix lime in water and soak sliced cucumbers in a large nonmetal container for 24 hrs. (Nanny used a gallon plastic lard bucket and covered the pickles with a dinner plate turned upside down to be sure to soak all the cucumbers in the lime water). Stir once or twice during the 24 hrs. Remove from lime water and rinse cucumbers to remove lime residue. Soak in clean fresh water 8 hrs. Rinse cucumbers again. Wash bucket.
To make syrup: Combine vinegar, sugar, and spices (tied up in cheesecloth). Pour syrup over cucumbers and set for 8 hrs or overnight. Pour cucumber mixture into a large pot. Put on stove, bring to a boil and simmer for 1 hr or until pickles are hot throughout. Pack in sterilized pickling jars with cucumbers and juice. Wipe any dripped syrup off the rim of each jar. Seal with sterilized lids and rings. Tighten each jar and set on a towel or drying rack to cool.
Note: The jars can be sterilized filled with a little water in the microwave on high until water inside jars begins to boil or inside a 300º oven, lying on the jars’ side on a large metal tray filled with about a cup or so of water to sterilize the jars. The lids and ringscan be sterilized in a pot of boiling water and pulled out individually as the jars are ready to be sealed. |
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Servings:6-7 qts or 12 pints approx. |
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Notes: Nanny Vickers, James’ mother, made homemade pickles every summer. Papa Vickers always grew a garden at the family farm, where he always grew cucumbers and many other delicious fresh vegetables. There was always fresh vegetables on their kitchen table to eat and enjoy. Nanny didn’t let anything from the garden go to waste.
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