Shredded Sweet Pickles

Name: Shredded Sweet Pickles
Yield: Approximately 2 to 2½ pints
Ingredients: 6 cups mixed, coarsely shredded firm vegetables, such as cucumbers, cabbage, onions, and carrots; 1½ cups water; ¼ cup coarse salt; ¼ cup pickling spices (P. 192); 2 tablespoons mustard seed; 1 quart water; 1½ cups white sugar; 1½ cups cider vinegar

Preparation info

Approximately
2 to 2½ pints

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Home Canning and Preserving

By Janet Cooper

Published 2014

About

Ingredients

6 cups mixed, coarsely shredded firm vegetables, such as cucumbers, cabbage, onions, and carrots
¼ cup

Side dish
Preserve
Vegan
Gluten-free

Method

Prepare the shredded vegetables. Make a brine of the salt dissolved in the water. Add the vegetables and soak for 4 hours, covered. Drain in a colander and rinse well. Squeeze out as much water as possible.
Combine the sugar, vinegar, water, mustard seed, and pickling spices, and simmer together, covered, for 15 minutes. This can be done when the vegetables are