Dilly Beans - Heirloom Recipe - Yum!! (canning)

[mysteryowl]

Dilly Beans

You will need about 3-pounds of green beans,
2-3 garlic cloves, 6 heads of fresh dill, or a couple Tablespoons of dill seed,
A few jalapeno peppers.

Liquid mix

3 ¾ cups water
3 ¼ cups cider vinegar
½ tsp alum
6 Tablespoons canning salt

Wash beans, tip and tail pack. Pack lengthwise in straight sided pint jars leaving ¼ inch headroom. Add 3-4 slices of garlic cloves, one head dill (or 1 tsp dill seed), 2-3 slices of jalapeno to each pint jar.

Bring liquid mix to boil and pour boiling hot over beans in jar leaving ¼ inch headroom. Adjust lids and process in boiling water bath (212 F) for 10-minutes. It takes at least two weeks for flavor to develop, but they are much improved by waiting a couple of months.

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This is a fantastic recipe. Easy to make. By time the Holidays are here, you will have a great gift and/or dinner condiment.

Enjoy!

[WheelWalker]

1. Sounds Yum to me. I'm in. Got anything for horseradish?

[mysteryowl]

2. Fun, I'm glad you are going to try it.

It is so easy to grow green or yellow beans, dill and jalapenos. So, for me, it all comes from my garden. It is a really nice gift especially at holiday time.

Wish I did have my grandfathers horseradish recipe. It is lost to the ages, unfortunately.

[Ohiogal]

3. I told my husband to plant green and yellow beans next year

Your recipe sounds good. I love dill with vegetables. We had a good crop of green beans this year.

So far this year we've canned 27 half pints of Hungarian Hot Wax peppers, in oil and vinegar, garlic and oregano. No one in this house eats them but him!

[mysteryowl]

5. Great, another canner!

It might not be too late to plant green or yellow beans. They grow fast. I planted a 2nd crop about 1 1/2 weeks ago and they are about 4 inches high. The heat helped them to germinate quickly.

Hungarian peppers, wow.

[Ohiogal]

7. I never thought of planting another crop of beans.

The cucumbers really took over the garden and invaded the beans. They even started growing up the tomato cages! Had to keep pulling them away.

I've tried a second planting of lettuce before, but never had much success. Maybe Ohio weather isn't the greatest for that?

Do you can or grow anything else? We've also canned 24 qts. of tomatoes so far this year.... Early Girl, Better Boy, Beefsteak, Health Kick (like a Roma) and Rutgers.

I even managed 10 half pints of elderberry jelly.

[mysteryowl]

9. Yes, Zucchini Relish

1/2 pints. Also, an Heirloom recipe.

Yep, I am going to try some lettuce soon too. I has been sooooo HOT, I thought to wait on the lettuce.

I freeze the tomatoes, it is so much easier.

elderberry jelly - YUM!

[Ohiogal]

11. I missed my zucchini this year.

Trouble is, when you plant it, you get so many you can't give them away.

That's kind of what happened with our cucumbers this year. We took nearly 60 lbs. of cucumbers to the local food bank. (not all at once, three separate times)

Zucchini relish, sounds interesting!

I tried freezing tomatoes before but didn't have enough room in the freezer.... Quite often I use them to make cream of tomato-basil soup in the winter months. My husband makes spaghetti sauce, too.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Wow,Piickeled beans.

Big time favorite in Rural Minnesota. And Rural Wisconsin.

[mysteryowl]

6. Great.

Have you made them before, or helped to eat them?

[Wellstone ruled]

8. My Propbation Officer(spouse)

and I made these as well as pickled Asparagus and Pickled carrots as well as beets. Once you get the brine mixture down,just go crazy with other vegies. We have not made any pickled vegies for about fifteen years. Lack of Garden and with just us two,easier to have the Relies do it and when we visit,make sure we leave with several quarts of those delicious suckers.

BTW, the boss and I canned these delicacies for more than forty years. If you worry about making a boo boo,don't,crap happens. Best canning recipes are in the Kerr and Ball canning books. Don't be afraid if throwing in some crushed red pepper.













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[mysteryowl]

10. I love pickled beets!

You know, this is the time to put up the harvest. It is a lot of work, but fun.
I just do a few things.

40 years of canning. You will be able to pass-on some heirloom recipes.

[Wellstone ruled]

12. Our eldest son and our daughter

both have all the recipe cards. What we now do is use Cooks.com as our go to recipe file. All of our recipes are most likely on that site. Two of our go to books are,the Watkins Cooking and Canning book,circa 1920+,the book is missing the covers. And the Other is cook book from Kerr Jars about the same time frame. Again,the Cooks web site is a treasure trove of wonderful cooking and canning ideas.