{"id":612,"date":"2015-06-23T22:57:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T02:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imnotallowed.com\/wp\/?p=612"},"modified":"2015-07-20T14:17:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T18:17:07","slug":"pickles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imnotallowed.com\/wp\/?p=612","title":{"rendered":"Pickles"},"content":{"rendered":"

So after the recent rains, I went out today to inspect the garden and do a little weeding. Found my pickle cucumbers were ready. I picked 5 initially but found another hiding.<\/p>\n

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Cleaned up the jars and made the brine.<\/p>\n

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Finally got around to trying these. I made the brine outside the jars this time using a tablespoon of pickling salt to one 16 ounce bottle of water. The pickles had the right salt content, but lacked in dill and garlic. The next batch I made two weeks ago I used garlic cloves slightly smashed like I normally do instead of the diced garlic. Also my dill heads from the garden were a bit larger.<\/p>\n

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Update 7\/20 – I think next batch I make I will try just a 24 hour period at room temperature instead of 48 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So after the recent rains, I went out today to inspect the garden and do a little weeding. Found my pickle cucumbers were ready. I picked 5 initially but found another hiding. Cleaned up the jars and made the brine.   Finally got around to trying these. I made the brine outside the jars this … Continue reading Pickles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imnotallowed.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imnotallowed.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imnotallowed.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imnotallowed.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imnotallowed.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/imnotallowed.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690,"href":"https:\/\/imnotallowed.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imnotallowed.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imnotallowed.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imnotallowed.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}