Pappaw's Okra Pickles Recipe
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Ingredients: 2 lb. small whole okra
3 cups vinegar, preferably cider
1 cup water
2 T. pickling salt
2 tsp. Tabasco
2 tsp. White Wine Worcestershire Sauce
For each jar:
1-2 small whole dried chilies, preferably pequin or cayenne
1 clove garlic
1 fresh dill "head" with seeds
1/4 tsp. mustard seeds
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Directions:In a large bowl, soak the okra in cold water for about an hour to plump it. While the okra soaks, sterilize the canning jars. Shortly before the okra finishes its bath, combine the vinegar, water, salt, Tabasco and Worcestershire sauce in a medium sauce pan, and bring the mixture to a boil. Simmer the pickling liquid while you prepare the okra and spices in their jars. Snugly pile the okra vertically into the sterilized jars, leaving about 1/2 inch of space at the top of each jar. Add the chiles, garlic, dill, and mustard seeds to each jar. Ladle the hot pickling liquid over the okra in each jar, covering the okra but leaving about 1/2 inch of head-space. Process the jars n a water bath, about 10 minutes.
Let the pickles sit for at least a week before serving them. |
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Notes: "My Granddad planted, nurtured and maintained a large garden on his land named "Po-Acres" in Comfort, Texas. He grew okra, tomatoes, cucumbers, broccoli. cauliflower, carrots and potatoes. His pride and joy was his large field of pecan trees that hung heavy every year with the most delicious Texas pecans. He enjoyed these retirement years, spending his days outside, tending to the garden, pecan orchard, a few head of cattle and the catfish in the pond that set in the corner of the beautiful 30 acres of land. Canning the okra and pickles was a true division of labor. Granddad provided the harvest and my Grandmother, "Betty-Lou" did the canning. There was not a meal at the table that didn't have a jar of these homemade okra pickles and a stack of white bread." (Heather Elaine Stumberg)
R. L. Horner was married to Sarah Elizabeth (Betty) Tittle on December 7, 1945. He was born on July 20, 1918 and passed away on March 17, 1995. He was always a loving and devoted husband and father and took great delight in his two grandchildren, Heather and George IV. R.L. was the oldest son of Pearl Ina Poynor and Elie Silman (E.S."Dick") Horner and the grandson of Robert Carson Horner.
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