Cinnamon Ring Pickles
"sweet red colored pickle chunks, reminds one of watermelon rind preserves, a polish and french canning recipe, originating in northern minnesota"
- Ready In:
- 7mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Yields:
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12 pint jars
ingredients
- 3 gallons pails large pickles, green not yellow
- 2 cups pickling lime juice
- 3 gallons water
- 1 gallon apple cider vinegar
- 1 (8 ounce) bottle red food coloring
- 1 tablespoon alum
- 10 -12 cups sugar
- 4 cups apple cider vinegar
- 1 (16 ounce) package red-hot candies
- 8 cinnamon sticks
directions
- 1st day; peel and slice large cucumbers enough to make 2 gallons.
- put 2 cups lime juice with 2 gallons water let stand overnight.in a crock or plastic pail.
- 2nd day; drain cucumbers and wash well. soak in cold water 2 hours, set aside.
- mix; 1 cup dark vinegar ,1 small bottle red food color, 1 tbls alum with 3 qts water,pour over cucumbers simmer 2 hrs on stove.drain and throw liquid away.
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syrup:
- 4 cups water.
- 10-12 cups sugar.
- 4 cups dark vinegar.
- 1 pkg cinnamon red hot candies.
- 8 cinnamon sticks.
- bring to a boil, pour over cucumbers in crock or pail.
- 3rd day:drain, reboil syrup, repour over cucumbers, (take out cinnamon sticks when boiling.
- 4th day ; same as third.
- 5th day ; drain and place cucumbers in 12 pint sized jars, heat up syrup ,pour over cucumbers, seal in hot water bath 10 minutes, you could half the recipe for 6 jars.
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Reviews
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This recipe is terribly wrong. No one can make 12 pints from 3 pickles (cucumbers). Against my better judgement, I used the 2 cups of lime juice as listed. The recipe should have called for 2 cups of pickling lime instead. Lime juice does not work and I wasted 8 pounds of cucumbers.
