http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/JackieClay/2009/02/25/one-mans-junk-another-mans-treasure/ Everything you ever wanted to know about homesteading. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:48:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/JackieClay/2009/02/25/one-mans-junk-another-mans-treasure/comment-page-1/#comment-3289 Ellen Waters Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:57:12 +0000 http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/JackieClay/?p=424#comment-3289 Re: dill pickles Another thing to try might be fermenting pickles in brine, and then refrigerating the resulting preserves. It depends whether you have room in your fridge :) I tried twice to ferment pickles this summer. One batch was wonderful, and the other went bad - I think the heat was the culprit. I'm new to this form of preservation (also tried kimchi and sauerkraut with good results) and there's a learning curve. You need to keep close tabs on your crock. I also learned that placing young grape leaves in your pickle jars helps to keep them crispy. I did that with my bread and butter sweet pickles, which I canned, and the dills which were refrigerated. Re: dill pickles
Another thing to try might be fermenting pickles in brine, and then refrigerating the resulting preserves. It depends whether you have room in your fridge I tried twice to ferment pickles this summer. One batch was wonderful, and the other went bad – I think the heat was the culprit. I’m new to this form of preservation (also tried kimchi and sauerkraut with good results) and there’s a learning curve. You need to keep close tabs on your crock. I also learned that placing young grape leaves in your pickle jars helps to keep them crispy. I did that with my bread and butter sweet pickles, which I canned, and the dills which were refrigerated.

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