{"id":3447,"date":"2013-08-16T03:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T07:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=3447"},"modified":"2013-08-16T03:00:30","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T07:00:30","slug":"q-and-a-bread-and-butter-pickles-and-canning-homemade-syrups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2013\/08\/16\/q-and-a-bread-and-butter-pickles-and-canning-homemade-syrups\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: bread and butter pickles and canning homemade syrups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bread and butter pickles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I tried your bread and butter pickles recipe but had far too little pickling juice. I halved the recipe as I had 8 cucumbers which weighed 3\u00bd pounds on my scale so I assumed that would be close to 2 quarts or half of your recipe. What did I do wrong? I know there&#8217;s a difference between liquid and dry weights but not sure how to figure out. I also sliced both the cukes and onions about 1\/8 inch thick on a mandoline. Should I have sliced them thicker?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Lettie Cain<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Inkster, Michigan<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wow! Big cukes and that was probably your trouble. Most folks make bread and butter pickles out of cukes just a little bigger than little whole dill-pickle sized cukes. No, your slices were fine. I&#8217;d use smaller cukes next time. When in doubt, you can always make more brine using the same proportions. Then you&#8217;ll always have plenty. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canning homemade syrups<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Is it possible to can homemade syrups, such as chocolate? I&#8217;ve read that you can&#8217;t home-can chocolate sauce, but what about syrup?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Lynda<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Bolton, Massachusetts<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sorry, but there are no approved recipes for canning chocolate syrup or sauce now available. I&#8217;m sure it can be canned as commercial products are, but I can&#8217;t advise it. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bread and butter pickles I tried your bread and butter pickles recipe but had far too little pickling juice. I halved the recipe as I had 8 cucumbers which weighed 3\u00bd pounds on my scale so I assumed that would be close to 2 quarts or half of your recipe. What did I do wrong? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}