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Impeccable Pickles

7 years ago
Cole Whitney
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Say goodbye forever to soggy and sad pickles. These crunchy half sours are the perfect companion to your burgers and dogs. Let them sink into a strong Bloody Mary, batter them and fry them up into crispy little pickle chips. There really is no wrong way to eat them.

Ingredients

  • 3g Calcium Chloride (1 tsp)
  • 1000g Water (1qt)
  • 300g Cucumbers (2/3 lb)
  • 28g Salt (2 Tbsp)
  • 25g Onion (1/4 small onion)
  • 10g Garlic, halved and green sprouts removed (1 clove)
  • 10g Dill (2Tbsp)
  • 10g Mustard Seed (1 Tbsp)
  • 1 Bay Leaf

Equipment

  • Mason jar
  • Kraut Source Kit
  • Small heavy bottom pot

Timing

Active Time: 40 minutes

Total Time: 4-7 Days

Yield

1 Quart Sized Mason Jar

  • Calcium Chloride Cucumber Bath

    Place water in a bowl and add calcium chloride, whisk to dissolve.

    Remove stems and thoroughly wash cucumbers. Cut cucumbers as desired.

    Add cucumbers to calcium chloride bath. Cover and refrigerate for 12 – 24 hours.

    Once time has elapsed, remove cucumbers from calcium chloride bath and rinse well.

  • Prepare Brine, Garlic, Onion

    Bring 500 ml of water to a boil. Add Salt. Stir until dissolved. Remove from heat and set aside to cool.

    Cut garlic in half and removed the small green garlic sprout, which is bitter. Optionally, crush, slice, or mince cloves to intensify flavor.

    Slice onion thinly.

  • Snip Dill

    Snip the fronds off the dill with scissors. Optionally, place the fronds in a teabag for easy removal later. Discard dill stems.

  • Sterilize

    Sterilize the jar and lid by running them through the sanitize cycle in a dishwasher or submerge in boiling water for 10 minutes.

  • Fill Jar

    Add mustard seed, dill, garlic, bay leaf, onions, and cucumbers to sterilized mason jar.

    Fill up to shoulder of jar with brine making sure to cover all the contents.

    Leaving one inch of space between the contents and the top of the jar will ensure that the ferment does not bubble up into the airlock.

    Assemble Kraut Source and screw onto the top of the jar. Fill the moat with distilled white vinegar.

  • Fermentation Time

    Leave jar at room temperature for one day to ferment, then place them in the refrigerator to finish the fermentation process. The cold temperature slows the fermentation process and also keeps the cucumbers crunchy.

    Whole cucumbers will take 6 – 7 days. it is normal to see bubbling activity in the jar and for the brine to turn slightly cloudy as the lactobacillus multiply.

    Replace the fermentation lid with a standard Mason jar lid. Store the pickles in your fridge up to two months (provided you don’t eat the whole jar in one go!)

Summary
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Recipe Name
Impeccable Pickles
Author Name
Modernist Pantry
Published On
2018-09-17
Preparation Time
0hH40M
Total Time
7DAYS
Average Rating
51star1star1star1star1star Based on 2 Review(s)

4 Comments.

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  • Allen
    August 12, 2020 3:18 pm

    What percentage brine do you recommend? I estimated you were a little over 5% but that seems high. Also I weighed 1 Tb of Diamond kosher salt at 7g. 28g would be 4 times that??

    • Janie Wang
      August 25, 2020 4:45 pm

      Updated this recipe!

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