How to pickle cucumbers with vinegar in jars - preparation recipe

Pickling cucumbers is a responsible task. Much depends on the spices you use for pickling.

For flavor, add dill and bay leaves to the cucumbers. Garlic, horseradish and pepper act as antiseptics and at the same time add spice. To make the fruits firmer, you need to add cherry, currant, or oak leaves when pickling. Vinegar is often added when pickling, and this is already considered pickling.

How to pickle cucumbers with vinegar in a jar so that they are crispy and tasty, let's look at the basic rules.

The cucumbers should be fresh and approximately the same size. The smaller the cucumbers, the better. Before pickling, cucumbers need to be soaked in cold water for 4-6 hours. If they were not picked today, they are probably already wilted. These changes cannot be seen without a microscope, but the skin on the cucumbers has already become denser, and it will not let salt into the fruit. After soaking, the skin will straighten and the cucumbers will be salted more evenly. There will be no voids in them, and they will delight you with their crunch.

Prepare liter jars and spices. Place the cucumbers in the jars as tightly as possible, filling the voids with leaves and spices. After all, you want to get cucumbers, and not just pickle in jars?

Prepare the brine. For 1 l. add water:

• 100 gr. salt;
• 100 gr. Sahara;

Boil the brine over low heat until the sugar and salt are completely dissolved. Add 1 tbsp. l. vinegar, and immediately pour over the cucumbers. Pour the brine slowly so that the jars do not burst due to a sudden temperature change.

The brine needs to be added almost to the very top, not reaching 1-2 cm from the top of the jar. After this, cover the jar with a metal lid and send the cucumbers to pasteurize for 10 minutes. Pasteurization is not necessary, but is advisable if you do not have a cold cellar to store cucumbers. After pasteurization, roll up the lids with a seaming machine and wrap the jars with a thick blanket.

You can store such cucumbers in a kitchen cabinet, but away from the radiator. Vinegar, of course, will protect them from souring, but it is not omnipotent. If the temperature rises above +18 degrees, the cucumbers may ferment.

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