Pickling Tip from a reader

 
Hi Sharon -- What a wonderful website you have--so wonderfully neat and organized; very sharp!

I was perusing your site and came across the pickling section and thought I might give you a pickling tip. 

After years of making pickles and having success and failures, I discovered something that changed things so that there are no more soft pickles.

I was reading the ingredients on a jar that I usually buy, and they listed distilled water!

I use to use alum but found out that because it is an aluminum product that it is not healthy although it sure made for snappy pickles.

I have been canning for about 40 years now; and although I don't do nearly what I use to do--we had a family of eight--we canned everything that didn't move :)


Blessings, Grannie ~ Michigan

Thanks Grannie

I want to thank Grannie for this tip.  We all are learning all the time and I for one am pickle challenged!  I'm going to try out Grannies idea and see if it helps me make "snappy" pickles instead of the smushy ones I usually get.  I make all kinds of relishes but regular dills are a struggle for me. You'll notice I don't have a recipe posted yet on my site.    I think part of it is my high altitude.  My processing time is long!  

Sharon