confused about pickles
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Comments (10)Onionology is complicated. Will try to clarify a little: First a little background: "onion" is a huge catch-all imprecise category encompassing a highly diverse clan, allium cepa and other allium species as well. What we are talking about here are bi-annual bulbing onions, grown from seed. All varieties of bulbing onions ultimately derive from the so-called "spanish" onion. They fall into two rough categories, long-day and short-day, based on how much daylight there is around the solstices where the plant is growing. So bulbing onions are highly sensitive to photo period. The first most important thing to know is whether your latitude is "short" day or "long" day. As it happens, Kentucky is kind of in the middle, either might work though long day is probably more likely to do well. There are also a few hybrid varieties called "intermediate" day that might do best of all for you. Short-day varieties are sown in fall and come to full size in late spring. They require more than just low latitude, they also require a mild winter climate, about z7b or warmer, so some regions of KY might work and others not. Long-day are sown soon after the winter solstice and planted out in early spring and are full size in mid to late summer, depending. An exception is the walla-walla which is adapted to the PNW and I think there may be one or two others long-days that can be fall-sown in mild northern climes. So the infamous "sets" are small bulbs grown from seed and then planted to grow for the plant's second season. The plant really wants to bolt and grow seed rather than a bulb. Sets are a scam perpetrated by seed companies. They are mostly a waste of time and space. Buy plants grown from seed in texas next year, they come at just the right time for planting out and the results will be far better....See MoreQuestion about 5% acidity and pickles
Comments (7)However I repeatedly see people here saying the minimum is a 1:1 ratio of 5%. What we say is 1:1 is the lowest approved ratio IF you are not using a tested, approved recipe. There are approved and tested recipes with a lower ratio both in the Ball books and at NCHFP. The recipe on a bag of canning salt may have been tested and approved. I can't say. But if it was it should stipulate that in the instructions. Otherwise it is just some recipe that the salt manufacturer put on the bag and it could be decades outdated. When it comes to evaluating safety in canning one has to consider the source. ie: which is more reliable? Ball Blue Book or some homemaker's personal blog? A recipe published in a 1954 cookbook or one in a recent edition of Ziedrich's Joy of Pickling? Normally I wouldn't consider a recipe on a bag of anything, even canning salt, to be a reputable source for canning info, especially when so many approved safe recipes are readily available from reliable sources. JMO Dave...See MoreQuestion about making pickled watermelon rinds
Comments (5)We always cut it all off the rind and chunk it. Save the chunks in a Tupperware container in the fridge. It saves time if you can peel the skin off and cut up the rind, put it in another container at the same time. Cut watermelon with just plastic wrap over it seems to go bad pretty quickly and takes up more room in the fridge than a bowl of chunks. One small watermelon only yielded enough rind for me to make 3 half pints of sweet pickles and 2 pints of lemon-ginger pickles. HTH...See MoreQuestion about Linda Lou's Sweet pickle chunks
Comments (3)No, you don't add water. Mine are sweet, good spices, crunchy. Just plain good. Yes, you can add food coloring. The other recipe has more water than vinegar. You always have to have at least 1/2 of the brine to be 5 % acidity to water ratio. So, no, that is not a safe recipe....See Morerandaloulton
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