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Default Putting up pickles

"Virginia Tadrzynski" > wrote in message
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> "George Shirley" > wrote in message
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>> Got five lbs of cuke spears soaking in a brine bath in the crock as I
>> write this. Cut off the blossom ends, also the vine ends, quartered them.
>> They're National Pickling cukes, developed for pickles naturally.
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>> I'm making Dill Pickle Spears from the Joy of Pickling book, probably end
>> up with four or five quart jars full. The next batch of cukes plus onions
>> and bell peppers will be made into relish. Made the recipe last year and
>> we, including all the descendants, enjoyed it rhinocerously. I think the
>> recipe I used came from the Big Ball book but the one I'm looking at
>> right now is from So Easy To Preserve, looks to about the same so the
>> relish should end up about the same.
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>> What's everyone doing this week?

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> try some 'figgy puddin' instead. about the pickles.....toss in at least 5
> different kinds of hot peppers with the cukes and call them
> Pentecostal...the kind that makes you sweat and claim you saw Jesus when
> you bit into it.
> -ginny
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Lord awmighty, that was funny. Bless yr heart.
Edrena