Easy Icebox Pickles

hi guys this is where my cheap welcome back to my vintage kitchen here in southern Colorado today was supposed to be awfully hot day up in the 90s but I think we're going to get a reprieve and just be in the 80s but my plan was to share with you some canning and that's what I'm going to do it's actually not canning but it's my refrigerator pickles I have made these over the years and everybody loves them including my family and I thought that I would share it with you I made them make some about two weeks ago it takes about 14 days for them to cure and we ate them before they were even ready to eat because they were lovely crisp and very good so now I got to make some more and hopefully they'll stay in until they're ready but what you can get if you have a farmers market near you that sells the little cucumbers then that's what you can get I started out with eight but the I didn't find any farmers market with little cucumbers but Walmart sells these many organic cucumbers and I just got two packs of those these have five in them each and this is a pack that I've already started and two cloves of garlic one onion that I've sliced and I'm going to have ringlets from them black peppercorns and these come from Penn zis a really great spice store and I'll take you on a fifth field trip there when I go back mustard seed and this came from either the Asian Pacific market are the Hispanic gala in Walmart but mustard seed and part me and dill that I got from my garden let me just take a picture of what you'll need and already they are looking beautiful left okay guys I cut into chips the the cucumber that I showed you I still have to do something with my garlic my rings of onion is ready and dill if you don't have fresh dill you can use dried dill and let me go over to mine my spice cabinet and mcCormick let me put on my glasses always a obstacle here this is I think this is McCormick yeah McCormick has a very good deal wheat and when I don't have fresh dill I'll use dill weed now remember about dried herbs you use about one half less of dry than you would fresh because the flavor is dried and intensified but don't worry if you don't have fresh dill you can also buy it in the store now just use dried herbs so I have the dill weed the peppercorns and now to make our pickling agent what really makes it good is two cups of water in a large saucepan two cups of water I'm going to turn on the stove top on medium-high one cup of vinegar now the the dill pickles that I made for myself at the end of last season I use cider vinegar and I really like it however it is really crisp and a beautiful presentation if you use the white vinegar and I'll show you both because I know you will be making this but right now we're going to use one cup and I just put a little over one cup no preciseness necessary a white vinegar and to the water okay and one-third only one-third cup of salt and I use the kosher salt I actually get this kosher salt from the Dollar Tree it is coarse kosher salt and I love love love this so I'm going to measure out 1/3 cup and that's probably about it it won't allow okay so on in the pot that I have on the stove this will be evaporating the salt and I will just have it warm enough for this salt to evaporate so there that goes and a little bit of water to clean out my measuring cup okay I did not do anything with mine with my garlic so I'm going to do that now actually I'm going to smash it and I actually left the skin on because I didn't that's not gonna hurt anybody and my other I made last week okay that's nighttime work some pet through and quarter this this is something that anyone can make new to the kitchen if you like pickles do yourself a favor you will make these many times this summer and as long as you can get pickles now I washed mine you can in jars and those of you who aren't or not Kanner's don't despair you can use anything a leftover mayonnaise jar or anything else that you use that you kept the jar and the lid for you can even put it in a Tupperware our a jar like this this plastic container which I'm going to feel with your pickles by the end of the seed season and this will be my winter jar this came from the Dollar Tree so you know you can use almost anything I think I'm like if I have cucumber left I'm going to put it in this little tight one but well this is what I'm going to start with so I simply washed into these canning jars first I'm going to put onion and pickled onion is superb on a hamburger you would not believe or it you don't have to take my word for it because when you make these illness okay that was just one kind of medium onion if I have a cucumber left over I want to save some of this onion so I won't use it all I'm looking at my notes here clothes garlic and I'm going to put one in each jar so I took off the skin after all pickle clove garlic it's also good when you reach down in this pot to get your dill pickle your icebox pickles then I'm going to put it at your deal we just put it down there or your your dry deal peppercorn about five peppercorns per are a little bit per jar and then your mustardseed about a teaspoon per jar and this makes such a beautiful beautiful presentation I'm almost out of mustard seed but you better believe I will have some by the end of the week okay just a little bit more now on I'll just monitor my vinegar my water and my salt to make sure that it has all of the salt has evaporated and I'll be right back with you when that is determined what I'm going to do is pack our jars while I'm waiting on the liquid to evaporate dissolve okay I'm packing them trying to get as much as I can in each jar because they will not go to waste are you guys who may have a farmers market that you can get the little cucumber sprung if they're all shriveled up and don't look very appealing don't worry just give them anyway you don't worry about that you know why the ones that I got from the farmers market were kind of looking pitiful so I'd put them in the sink to wash them before I I started canning them are putting them up and I walked away probably went to Walmart or somewhere but missed them came back they were still in the sink but they had he's miraculously plumped up and that makes sense because it it would be like a sponge okay these are pretty packed they would be like a sponge and would plump up it didn't occur to me but they weren't nice as bigots pickles in the end so don't despair keep on just keep buying them okay I have I'm ready to fill my jars up with the vinegar and the water and the salt solution so this is what I'm gonna do I'm gonna bring my water over to the workstation here and this is pretty hot but I'm pouring in the brine right now now this isn't hot enough to cook the cucumber but it's enough to get this party started okay I may have to make a little more wine but that's no big deal okay and just fill it up right up to the neck of where the cucumber yes no you may just put a little more on just a little more vinegar in that now you take your tool that you get or you can do it with a spoon but you want to get the air bubbles from your canning project so you want them just press down press down press down and make sure your cucumber is full sorry get it on me it submerged I'm going to put the lids on each of my jars here just tighten it put it in a refrigerator for 14 days and you will have ice box our refrigerator dill pickles they're good I wouldn't tell you they were if they weren't so please leave me a thumbs up rate comment and subscribe but most of all make these puppies you will not be disappointed thanks so much email me at grim ITTF at gmail.com follow me on twitter at grandma Chico and I just started Instagram and I think it's grandma cheep-cheep but I will let you know in the next video goodbye guys

Channel: Grandma Cheap Cheap

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Keywords: pickles, refrigerator pickles, icebox picxkles, dill pickles, pickling, canning, canning pickles, soul food, Grandma Cheap Cheap, eating, recipes, pickle recipe, Food, Cooking, Kitchen

Id: wDVyMSYJiX8

Length: 16min 38sec (998 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 21 2014