soTWEEDLEjourn wrote:

> Hello
> I want to make some cantaloupe pickles and googled some great
> idea-some origionally from this group!
> The question I have is this- the hot water bath processing time
> differs from 5 minutes to 15 minutes from when the water comes to a
> boil.
> I'll be using 250 ml jars (I hate metric- I grew up with Imperial
> measurements!) I think this works out to about 8 oz. I just measured
> it out...)
> Anyway- thanks kindly for any and all advice. I really appreciate your
> help.

I love metric, much easier to * and /. Fractions slurp. I made
cantaloupe pickles the first year I started. By then I'd made so many
different kinds I never wanted to taste sweet-sour pickles again. I
thought they were marvelously fragrant, but kinda of a pain to make for so
little gain. And they were deathly sweet. We'd rather have cantaloupes
fresh. If you're at or less than 1000' elevation, JOP calls for 10 min.
for pint jars for cantaloupe pickles. I usually cut 5' for half pints. &
add mins as needed for altitude.
Edrena, lost in the clouds at 4,000 feet.