Homemade Pickles

Since I love pickles and everybody in my family loves pickles, I’m always making batch after batch in the canner all summer while my cucumber plants are producing. I make sweet pickles, savory pickles, pickle spears, pickle chips, and sometimes whole pickles and pickle relish. We’ll put up 60 jars of home-canned pickles or pickle-related…

Home-canned pickles are a go-to method to preserve those summer cucumber harvests. Unfortunately, a lot of folks end up disappointed when they crack the first jar open to find the pickles have gone mushy. I’ve had people tell me they’ve switched to only making refrigerator pickles for that very reason. Refrigerator pickles are nice, but…