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Mustard Pickles

This is based on a recipe I have from a friend. She peels her cukes, I don't. I also put in turnip in addition to the cukes, onions, and cauliflower. I've made these 2 years in a row now and they have turned out great.

Mustard Pickle SauceMix - make as much as you need

in a bowl :

* 1/2 cup flour
* 3 tsp mustard powder
* 1 tsp ginger
* 1 tsp tumeric
* 1/2 tsp coarse/pickling salt

Gently whisk in about 1/2 cup of cold water until you have an even batter with no lumps in it.

Meanwhile in a pot mix :
* 3 cups vinegar
* 2.5 cups sugar

and gently bring to the boil. Take a cup of the vinegar/sugar solution and whisk it into the paste/batter of your spices, and when it's smooth, mix it into the main pot with the sugar and vinegar.

Salted Veggies

Mix this up and let set at least 2 hours, best 12+. Press out with fruit press if you have one. Actually, if you have a press you can get away really well with only an hour soak, then press to half their volume. If you don't have a press, go with a 12 hour soak then press out as best you can some other way.

* 2.5 litres cukes
* 1.5 litres onions
* Mix in 3/8 cup pickling salt and let the brine soak out.

Unsalted Veggies

* 1.5 litres cauliflower flourets
* 1.5 litres turnip

Add these to the 10 litre pot after you mix in the squeezed-out pickles and the sauce from the other pot. I ended up making a double batch of sauce for all the above veggies, and it was just about right. Could have gotten away with maybe 10% less or so. Bring it up to the boil slowly and turn off the heat just as it boils, then pack in jars, release the air with a knife, put the lids on and process them all for 5 minutes at 15 psi in the trusty All American 930. OR USE WHATEVER PROCESSING METHOD YOU FEEL IS SAFE!!! I got 9 jars of pickles plus 2 jars of cauliflower since I only need half of a huge head of it for the mustard pickles.

I decided to add the turnip/rutabaga (the smaller one) just because we still had a lot of it from our CSA. I liked it so much that way I did it again. Really you can throw in just about anything you like.

Thanks!

I might give this a go on the weekend (or soon atleast). I need to pick up more mason jars too, filled all my empties up last weekend. I need to start asking the usual people to give them back when they empty them.

Ah yes, Mustard Pickles... I`ve never made them myself but I do like them.

Although I`ve tried my hand at jam, pickles is something I haven`t attempted as of yet. I usually buy them at a Farmer`s Market or other such sale when I can find them from a "Pickle Lady". LOL

I went ahead and made some.

I used 5 medium/large cucumbers, a half head of cauliflower, and two medium sized onions. It was almost perfect for one batch of the mustard sauce and filled 3x1L jars. Just a very tiny bit left over, which was quickly consumed by the vulture I'm married to :-)

I use my late mother-in-law's recipe for mustard pickles. It uses a LOT of dry mustard. Haven't made any for a couple of years though.

I never heard of that before but it sounds just amazingly good! I have to try that imediately for dinner tonight.

Bump! Thanks for the 1.5L mason jars poutine - my recipe for Mustard Pickles is above. If I'd known ahead of time I could have given you a jar.

Zym - I am drooling... sounds delish.

You are welcome Zym. Glad I could help and I can't wait to make those Pickles. I imagine you use the pickling type of cukes? How big do you chop everything before salting?

Size really is just a function of how big you want the pieces. Though you don't want them too big because you won't fit as much in the jars.

Making another batch right now - anyone know where to get local rutabaga or turnip? Parkdale does not have any. If I cannot find any I'll probably try some carrots - have never done that before and figure it is worth a try. Thankfully I did find some local cukes today at Rochon at Parkdale, but it was the dregs! They will be out tomorrow for sure.

I was out Acorn Creek on Friday and I think I remember seeing turnip or rutabaga. Call to confirm though.

I had lots of local organic carrots on hand so decided to use those instead!

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