How To Pickle Vegetables

So you want to learn how to pickle vegetables? This is also known as brining and corning. It is an older way preserving foods without all the fake additives that are currently added to many foods. When this is done it gives the food a salty and sour flavor. Back in the day this was done to save foods that were not in season at that time. They also did this if they had to do some long traveling with foods so they did not go bad to fast. Sticking certain meats in salts kept them fresher longer this was also a form of pickling. This word originally came from a dutch word pekel which translates to mean brine. Below I am going to tell you how to pickle vegetables.

At Home Pickling process Of Vegetables

These is the process of pickling. It can be used to pickle a variety of vegetables that you have picked fresh from your home garden.

1. You can either pickle them whole or cut them into pieces. It is really just a matter of your taste as to which one you choose.
2. Onion
3. 1/2 tsp mustard seed
4. 1/4 cup of salt
5. 3/4 cup sugar
6. 1 cup of vinegar
7. 1/2 teaspoon ginger
8. 1/2 teaspoon celery seed
9. 1/4 teaspoon turmeric
10. You will want to wash the vegetables you will be using.
11. If you want you can cut them or leave them as is.
12. You will however want to cut the onion up.
13. Mix vegetables and onion together.
14. Now Put the salt in with the onion and vegetables. Mix together and sit for two hours.
15. After this has set for hours you can now you can drain all of this.
16. Next mix the vinegar, water, celery seed, mustard seed, sugar, ginger, and turmeric together and heat till it comes to a boil.
17. After it comes to a boil you can now add the vegetables and onion to this mixture and boil it all till the vegetables and onion are tender to the touch.
18. You want to put this mixture into the jars while it is still hot.

Now you can just wait however long you want to to get the best flavors out of your new mixture. This procedure is a fairly easy thing to do and can be done in no time. You can make this as gifts for people and place them in fancy jars or just make enough so you can have this for your own personal consumption. Either way enjoy your pickled vegetables.