Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, ice box pickles. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Ice Box Pickles is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Ice Box Pickles is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook ice box pickles using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Ice Box Pickles:
- Get 1 head cauliflower
- Prepare 7 cup cucumber diced, with seeds removed
- Prepare 1/2 cup onion, sliced
- Get 1/2 cup sliced red or green pepper, or a combination of both
- Make ready 2 cup sugar**
- Take 1 cup vinegar
- Make ready 1 tbsp coarse salt
- Take 1 tsp mustard seed
- Take 1 tsp celery seed
- Prepare 2 large mason jars
Instructions to make Ice Box Pickles:
- Cut up all vegetables into a large container or bowl (1 gallon capacity approx.)
- Combine vinegar, spices, salt, and **sugar into a jar and shake well. With the sugar, 2 cups is fairly sweet, so if you want a sweeter pickle use all 2 cups. For a tarter pickle use less. I started with 1 ½ cups in the jar and taste tested. I used about 1 ⅔ cups of sugar.
- Pour the liquid over the cut up vegetables, cover and refrigerate 12 – 24 hrs stirring every 6 - 8 hrs or so, making sure all the vegetables are evenly coated.
- The vegetable mass you started with will drop considerably and the liquid mass will double to triple in volume.
- Divide your pickled vegetables into 2 jars and cover with the liquid left in the container.
- Theses pickles will keep for 3 months in the refrigerator, if they last that long! Enjoy! :)
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