Web1 To start this lime pickle recipe simply wash cucumbers. Remove 1/16 -inch from blossom end and slice crosswise. Mix pickling lime in water. Aluminum containers should not be …
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The week we received pickling cucumbers, there was a recipe for Old Fashion Maine Mustard Pickles on the back. Looking it over, we noted that we had everything except the dry mustard, but we did have mustard seed. While we could’ve ground them into powder, we thought we’d just leave ’em whole.
Place cucumbers and onions in a large stainless steel or glass bowl. Mix 1 cup of pickling/canning salt with 8 cups of cold water (double this as needed if doing a larger batch of pickles). Pour over top of cucumbers and onions, add more cold water if necessary to cover the tops of the cucumbers.
This old-fashioned recipe was originally written to make it very easy to make a small batch or big batch depending on how many cucumbers you were making. You can also adjust this recipe depending on how sweet or how tart you want your pickles. Note: The vinegar will grow stronger the longer your cucumbers soak too.
But why not make an old fashioned mustard pickles recipe and more. At our house, mustard pickles are called senfgurken (senf being the German word for mustard and gurken are cucumbers). Our old fashioned mustard pickles recipe is an old German recipe.