The Cook wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:55:44 -0500, Melba's Jammin'
> > wrote:
>
>>In article >,
>> The Cook > wrote:
>>
>>> Just started a batch of Mrs. Wage's sweet pickles. I am using the
>>> long version this time. I think I will try the Pickle Crisp for the
>>> next batch.
>>>
>>> When I was at a family reunion a couple of weeks ago I tried some of
>>> the pickles there and asked who made them. I found out who and she
>>> said, "I use the recipe on the Mrs. Wage's bag."
>>
>>Gherkins or more like a b & b?
>
> More like a gherkin but sliced. George makes them. The ones I ate at
> the reunion were not translucent and were crisp. I tried to make a
> recipe I used before we moved here. They were cooked until they were
> translucent. Can't get them to work here. It takes forever to get
> them translucent, not crisp and the syrup is too thick. Probably the
> altitude. Previously live at sea level. Now my house is at 1100'+. I
> am looking for recipes for the whole sweet pickles. Heinz made them
> but I haven't located them recently. Luckily my local grocery has a
> store brand that is just about the same. We use them for potato salad
> and kidney bean salad.
>
> Got to find the water bath pan and wash jars. Then start to heat them
> up. They have been sitting in the syrup overnight.
>
Years ago I made several types of pickles, but I never tried sweet
pickles. Considering that I like sweet pickles the best, it's probably
because I never found a recipe that I felt looked like what I wanted
to end up with.

If anyone does have or find a non-brined sweet pickle (preferably for
whole cukes) recipe, please post it. I'd love to give it a try this
year assuming my gherkin puts out enough cucumbers in spite of our
moderate drought.

Nyssa, who scored big yesterday finding Pickle Crisp, the jar of Ball
pectin, storage lids both regular and wide, a marked down jar of Fruit
Fresh and capped it off with a new BH&G Canning magazine