{"id":18992,"date":"2020-07-26T13:27:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T20:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=18992"},"modified":"2020-07-26T13:27:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T20:27:05","slug":"got-pickles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2020\/07\/got-pickles\/","title":{"rendered":"Got Pickles?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So. Weekend # 3 for pickles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This weekend, I broke in a new steam canner and I am sold on steam canning: less water, faster to canning temp and it holds 7 quarts vs the 4 pints of my small batch stock pot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My local organic farm has been offering a “pickle pack”: 7 pounds of pickling cucumbers, a batch of dill and a bulb of fresh (vs cured) garlic. This makes 1 batch of the sweet and spicy pickles I like and 1 batch of dill. The last 2 weekends, I took 2 mornings to make the 2 batches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today: I sliced and brined all. Then, walks, play, breakfast all around and finally processing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I took the 2nd batch of jars out of the canner at 11:30 a.m. Another walk and play session, clean up the kitchen and just after noon, I was D.O.N.E. An enjoyable process and all jars sealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I started this morning, 51F. When I finished, it was 70F. With an exhaust window fan, the house and kitchen stayed cool – YEA!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is supposed to be a warm week: 91-94 until Friday. And I think I’m ready for a break from weekend canning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still … it was a beautiful process … have a look!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That is the dill for the dill pickles, on the left: so pretty and so fragrant!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nothing to do with pickles. Spearmint on the front porch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Again, nothing to do with pickles … Auggie on his morning rounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We end with a clean kitchen, pickles all sealed in jars and joy in the process of preserving good food!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We’ve got pickles!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So. Weekend # 3 for pickles. This weekend, I broke in a new steam canner and I am sold on steam canning: less water, faster to canning temp and it holds 7 quarts vs the 4 pints of my small batch stock pot. My local organic farm has been offering a “pickle pack”: 7 pounds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18992"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19004,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18992\/revisions\/19004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}