Sweet Dill Pickles
Arwilda kept two different recipes with this title.
Complete card with 1/2 teaspoon alum per jar
Clear Tote illustrated two-sided card
Yield: 5 times this covered 10 pts of pickles
Ingredients
- skinny cukes
- 3 qts water
- 1 c. non-iodized salt
- Alum (1/2 teas)
- dill
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup vinegar
- 1 [overwritten unit] celery seed
Directions
- soak about 5" skinny cukes overnight in cold water, scrub in the morning. Slice in 1" chunks.
- Brine: 3 qts water 1/2 non-iodized salt. boil. pour over pickles 3 times heating to boil each time.
- Put small amount of Alum (1/2 teas) on bottom of each jar.
- Fill jars with chunks putting dill on top fill with boiling syrup & seal.
- 5 times this covered 10 pts of pickles.
Timing: overnight; heating to boil each time; fivefold scaling note
Temperature: cold water; boil; heating to boil each time; boiling syrup
Equipment: soaking vessel, scrub brush, knife, brine pot, measuring tools, jars, filling utensil, and jar seals
Arwilda’s changes
- Crossed out “syrup”
Complete card with 1/8 teaspoon alum per jar
Clear Tote plain handwritten two-card card
Sweet Dill Pickles
Ingredients
- about 5-inch skinny cukes; cold water
- 3 qts water
- 1 c. non iodized salt
- small chunks of Alum (1/8 teas)
Directions
- Soak about 5” skinny cukes overnight in cold water, scrub in the morning.
- Slice in 1” chunks.
- Brine: 3 qts water, 1 c. non iodized salt boil.
- Pour over pickles 3 times heating to boil each time;
- Put small chunks of Alum (1/8 teas) in bottom of each jar.
Timing: overnight
Equipment: jars
Untitled recipe
Yield: 5 times this canned 10 pts. of pickles
Ingredients
- unidentified pickle chunks; dill; syrup made from 1 C sugar, 1 C vinegar, and 1 tblsp celery seed
Directions
- Fill jars with chunks putting dill on top.
- Fill with boiling syrup & seal
Temperature: boiling syrup
Equipment: jars; syrup-boiling vessel; canning sealing equipment
Notes
- 5 times this canned 10 pts. of pickles
Compare the cards
Alum per jar
- Clear Tote plain handwritten two-card card
- small chunks of Alum (1/8 teas) in bottom of each jar
- Clear Tote illustrated two-sided card
- small amount of Alum (1/2 teas) on bottom of each jar
Celery seed
- Clear Tote plain handwritten two-card card
- 1 tblsp celery seed
- Clear Tote illustrated two-sided card
- 1 [overwritten unit] celery seed; likely tsp or tbsp, unresolved
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