Trim off the blossom end!\u00a0 Slice cucumbers as desired and add to the container.\u00a0 Make a brine: 2 cups malt vinegar, 1 cup water, 2 Tbl salt, 1\/2 tsp peppercorns, 1\/2 tsp mustard seed, 1\/2 tsp celery seed, and 1 tsp dill seed.\u00a0 Bring the brine to a boil.\u00a0 Lower heat, and simmer 5 minutes.\u00a0 Add one blade of mace to each jar. Ladle hot brine over the cucumber slices.\u00a0 Allow the jars to cool (uncovered) 1 hour, and then refrigerate for 1 hour more.\u00a0 Cover the jars and store up to 3 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Trim off the blossom end!\u00a0 Slice cucumbers as desired and add to the container.\u00a0 Make a brine: 2 cups malt vinegar, 1 cup water, 2 Tbl salt, 1\/2 tsp peppercorns, 1\/2 tsp mustard seed, 1\/2 tsp celery seed, and 1 tsp dill seed.\u00a0 Bring the brine to a boil.\u00a0 Lower heat, and simmer 5 minutes.\u00a0 … Continue reading “To Pickle Cucumbers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cookery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becomingbeathog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/becomingbeathog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/becomingbeathog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becomingbeathog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becomingbeathog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/becomingbeathog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1190,"href":"https:\/\/becomingbeathog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions\/1190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becomingbeathog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becomingbeathog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becomingbeathog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}