You can certainly try the recipe with less-fresh cucumbers, but they tend to get bitter and don’t remain crispy. Five pounds of cukes will yield about 12 pint-sized jars, but cucumbers vary in ...

The equipment: Two pint-size jars and a third jar in which you'll shake up the brine — all must be thoroughly cleaned. Choosing your cukes: When canning pickles, kirby cucumbers (also fittingly ...

A canning rack is also a great investment, as your jars need to be off the bottom of the pot. But you can make one yourself by tying canning rings together with cooking twine.

For green beans, cucumber spears and other vegetables standing upright, trim as needed to fit inside the jar, leaving 1 inch of headspace at the top.

For this garlic dill pickle canning recipe, you'll need one pound of pickling cucumbers, two quarts jars, 1/3 cup of canning salt, four cups white vinegar, eight tablespoons sugar, six cloves ...

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Do all canning jars need to be sterilized? If you're wondering whether you need to sterilize jars before filling them up with delicious preserves, the answer lies in the recipe's processing time.

Remove your canning jars, 2 or 3 at a time. Ladle the hot cucumbers and their liquid into 6 hot 1-pint glass canning jars, leaving a 1/2 inch of space at the top.

A canning rack is also a great investment, as your jars need to be off the bottom of the pot. But you can make one yourself by tying canning rings together with cooking twine.

A canning rack is also a great investment, as your jars need to be off the bottom of the pot. But you can make one yourself by tying canning rings together with cooking twine.