There are many recipes for preserving cucumbers - each housewife has his own, familiar one. However, you always want to try to do something new to surprise your loved ones and diversify the table. One of these recipes is pickled cucumbers with red currants.
Pick your recipe
You will need
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- 2 kg of cucumbers,
- 75 g of salt
- 1.5 liters of water
- 100 g of red currant,
- spices and herbs to taste.
Instruction manual
1
Wash the glass jars in which you will cover the cucumbers thoroughly with hot water and soda. Sterilize them by boiling for 20 minutes in water (can be sterilized by steam). Boil metal covers for 20 minutes. It is necessary to ensure that when boiling, the cans and lids are completely immersed in water.
2
Prepare herbs and spices for cans. Thoroughly wash the dill umbrellas, currant leaves, horseradish. Peel and chop the garlic. Prepare the right amount of salt. Wash the currants, peel the berries from the stalks.
3
Wash freshly cut green cucumbers and soak in ice-water for one to two hours so that air comes out of them. Then pour boiling water over the fruits and stack them vertically in prepared jars, shifting them with spices.
4
Pour hot water from the kettle into the jars of cucumbers. Close with a sterile lid and leave for five minutes. Pour the water from the cans into a saucepan, add salt there and set to boil. Re-sterilize the lid. Add the currant berries to the jars. Pour boiling brine into jars, being careful not to touch the edges of the jar with a pan, close the lid for 5 minutes. Drain and boil the brine again and fill it in jars. Close the lids tightly, turn them upside down, make sure that no water flows from under the lids, wrap the jars and leave them to cool completely.
note
If it is not possible to soak the cucumbers in ice water, it is better to preserve them immediately, since cucumbers will become loose from soaking in room temperature water.
Instead of currants, you can put raspberries in jars.
Useful advice
Herbs for harvesting can be taken to any taste.
Instead of horseradish leaves, you can use the root, but it must be thoroughly peeled, washed and cut into thin slices.
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