Homemade Pickles?

[Lipher]

Any of you guys use a pressure cooker for canning? I haven't - just been using the boiling water method. It's fine because my preserved foods usually don't last long wnough to reach the end of their shelf life but considering that to do double the amount of canning does not require double the energy or time, I am thinking about getting a pressure cooker and doing more canning at one time.

I found a recipe for preserved lemons - my wife LOVE lemon martinis so I am thinking that they'd kick ass in her drinks

I do both just to speed up the process.

Pressure cooker is an essential tool in any kitchen.

 

[Deathskin]

my mom makes killer homemade pickles..they have seeds for a strain of cuke that is almost white damn theyre the best cukes ive ever had..i think they ordered the seeds from a catalog that specializes in rare and hard to find seeds

 

[hogfarmer]

I use both hot water bath and pressure cooker. It depends on what I'm canning. I use the good old Kerr canning jars, If I don't get them back from the people I give things to they're allways available at the local grocery store. I do have a favorite kraut recipe, cabbage,brine and a few carraway seeds. I even have an old crock to ferment it in. When I was a kid my great grandma had a root cellar where she had her kraut crock and the kraut plank. That wood had been in there for years and had the right bacteria in it. I've never found kraut that compares to hers. Alton Jones on good eats has a good small batch recipe thats easy and good.

 

[rdomfoto]

Ah, the ol "root cellar". Yeah, my grandparents had one of their farm. It was a small farmhouse with three bedrooms - one for G&G, one for the two boys, one for the two girls, and you had to lift up a trap door on the floor to access the cellar. The stairs were steep and the house had no running water or electricity for years. I remember (barely - I was only 5 or 6) back in the early 70s when they got electricity.

My grandmother had a one acre garden. ONE. FREAKING. ACRE! And, damn, did that woman can everything.