you really should use a safe and tested recipe when canning - you wouldn't
want to skip such a simple step and end up sick! ;-)

http://www.homecanning.com/can/AlRecipes.asp?R=113

this link is a good recipe, and it's safe, and it has a boiling water bath
to seal the jars,

Kathi


"Jacqueline" wrote in message
...
We never hot bath our pickles and they turn out great. Make the about
every other year and always have a few left over. The first year my
mother canned bread and butter pickles we all liked them so much that
she had to put a limit on them and we only got to open a jar on our
birthdadys, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter. LOL needless to say
we made many more pickles the next year. Here is the recipe we use.

http://www.mountain-breeze.com/kitchen/canning/1.html


Jacqueline

On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 23:05:22 GMT, Allan Matthews
wrote:

Last summer, I wanted to make some pickles (firsst timer). Went to
the super market and bought a package of pickling mix made by the Ball
Company. It involved simply heating a mixture of vinegar and water
with the rpoduct and putting the sliced pickles in a jar with the
liquid. I did not know whether the pickles would spoil or not, no
instructions were given in the package, so I did the water bath thing.
Before I did this, the pickles tasted great and were crisp. After
wards, when I opened a jar the pickles were way to "vinegary" and very
soft..

Would the pickles have been ok if I had not done the water bath and
how long woiuld they have lasted?
Want to do more pickles this next summer. TIA, Allan

Jacqueline
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