kosher dill pickles

[pjrose]

Decades ago we used the recipe in the Ball Blue Book.....they tasted like the right thing to me and DH.

 

[pgnewarkboy]

A Kosher Pickle must sit in a big wooden barrel with other Kosher pickles for a minimum of one week. When I was a kid thats how we got em - right out of the barrel. Nothing compares.

 

[heathpack]

Oh, boy. This is high risk! You know if anything is going to leak all over your suitcase/clothing/airplane/car, it's going to be pickles.

Yes, I have images of an angry wife who cannot get the smell of pickle juice out of her clothes!

Sorry to hear that the pickles didn't work out. You could probably let them ferment longer if you were so inclined-- maybe if you just kept it going a little longer.

I still have not made any more pickles. Just fig jam, strawberry jam, raspberry jam, pickled jalepenos, and strawberry sauce (for ice cream).

H

 

[mo1950]

So sorry your pickles did not work out the way you wanted; I know that was a disappointment. We have used the Claussen pickles from the store for many years now, but occasionally I think about my good old pickle making days and wish I had a garden again.

My mother made very good dill pickles, not the fermented kind. She grew her own dill, so put a sprig of dill in each jar, a very tiny hot red pepper and one cherry leaf off of the cherry tree in her front yard. That cherry leaf gave it the best flavor, very subtle. But if she made pickles without it, we could tell right away.

 

[RonB]

I think this is my third final post on this post...
I gave the pickles another 5 days and they were much closer to what I wanted. They had a flavor I did not want. When I do this again, I will cut way back on the pickling spices. Otherwise the flavor was closer than anything I have had since I left NY.
Thanx again to all who responded ~ Ron

 

[heathpack]

I think this is my third final post on this post...
I gave the pickles another 5 days and they were much closer to what I wanted. They had a flavor I did not want. When I do this again, I will cut way back on the pickling spices. Otherwise the flavor was closer than anything I have had since I left NY.
Thanx again to all who responded ~ Ron

Aw, c'mon. There's GOT to be a 4th final post now. So we can learn how the second batch of pickles turns out!

 

[bjones9942]

Check out the last two items here. I prefer the sour variety.

 

[RonB]

Check out the last two items here. I prefer the sour variety.

Firefox sez they can't verify that this site is "kosher"...
Ron