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Pickles
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Doctor wants me to *increase* my salt intake, since occasionally my blood pressure drops into the 80's, and my normal diet includes very little salt.
Even the pickles I normally eat are home made and totally without salt. Or even sugar.
I figure that increasing salt through vegetables is the only practical way to do it.
SO I am looking for a good pickle recipe, one that can be used without refrigeration, as I am expecting a good cucumber crop soon, and refrigerator space is limited. I would like the recipe to have the minimal amount of salt, and yet be stable in warm weather. And hopefully flavored well enough to go good in a salad. (Unsalted pickles can only be stored in the fridge...)
Any ideas???
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Digg This Story :: Top :: #2 Jun-15-07, 01:37 AM
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Re: Pickles
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snakey's back with the pickles!
These are for canning/jarring; I assume it's the only way to go with low salt.
Did you ever get to employ your Humongous Pickle jars?
SWEET AMISH PICKLES
2 gallons lg. cucumbers
1 pt. salt
Boiling water
1 tbsp. alum
SYRUP:
6 c. vinegar
1/2 oz. cinnamon sticks or half a box
13 c. sugar
1/2 celery seed
Slice large cucumbers. Cover with salt and boiling water; let stand for 1 week. Drain and sprinkle with alum. Cover with boiling water; let stand for 24 hours. Again, drain and cover with boiling water. Let stand for 24 hours more. Drain and cover with syrup (recipe above). Let stand 24 hours. Heat all together and can.
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Title: Low-Sodium Pickles
Yield: 6 Pints
Ingredients
1 3 lb. cucumber
1 3 cloves garlic
1 6 heads of dill
1 3 c. vinegar
1 3 c. water
3 tb salt substitute. umm, would REAL salt work here in the same quantity??
Instructions
Use small cucumbers or slice vertically or horizontally. I usually
cut the cukes vertically in fourths for this recipe. Wash, slice if
needed, and pack cucumbers into clean jars. PPlace 2 cloves garlic
and head of fresh dill into each jar. In saucepan, heat vinegar,
water and salt sutstitute to boiling. PPour into jars to fill.
Process in boiling water bath for 10 minutes. Yields six pints.
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Cukes are good and fine but if you grew BEETS, I would be frothing at the mouth!
Very versatile...delightful pickled and cold, and even more delicious as a warm main dish, Italian style.
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Digg This Story :: Top :: #3 Jun-16-07, 09:59 PM
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Re: Pickles
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Thanks stuffy!
For low sodium pickles I usually put pickes in jar and add apple cider vinegar and enough liquid saccharine till its sweet enough, and throw in some dill and tarragon for good measure.
The only real 'salt substitute' is potassium chloride, which can be good tasting on some foods, but much too bitter for others. Like pickles....
The Amish pickles look good, but I would certainly want to avoid the Alum. Saltpeter. Potassium Aluminum Sulfate. Neither good for health, nor low blood pressure!
Gotta check with the Amish. I did find out from them that the secret to making turkey sausage that totally lacked the bitter flavor typical of ground turkey was to add sugar. I had been specially ordering from them turkey sausage made without salt. And it tastes good.
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Digg This Story :: Top :: #4 Jun-16-07, 10:55 PM
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Re: Pickles
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Teach me master. What's the problem with alum, and isn't saccharin bad for you?
tip exchange for good measure
An old friend from Queens taught me to put a dash of cinnamon in my meatball mix to cut the acid of tomatoe. Also to give the meat a good first 'burn' on the bottom of the pan...and leave it there throughout the cooking.
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Digg This Story :: Top :: #5 Jun-18-07, 12:07 AM
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Re: Pickles
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Alum historically is known as Salt Peter, considered a more polite term than pickled dick. Its hypotensive effects, in effect are the diametric opposite of those smartasses with their wake up pill,
Saccarine is OK Grasshopper, Just dont make javelin spears from what you dont pizz
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Digg This Story :: Top :: #6 Jun-18-07, 12:38 AM
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Ahh, I see. No no no alum.
Umm, spears as in stones? Huh!
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Just don't get the Alum mixed up with the Salt Peter....
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Digg This Story :: Top :: #8 Jun-19-07, 12:45 AM
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Re: Pickles
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Just dont make javelin spears from what you dont pizz
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I was half asleep when I wrote that, and so am perplexed as anyone else!
Saccharine got a bad rap many years ago when in one study with rats the amount given caused massive crystallization in the kidneys, with the injury turning into cancerous tumors for many.
Subsequent studies at more realistic doses have never found any harm. Apparently safer than Nutrasweet, and probably most other sweetners. Including sugar...
It makes great pickles, and I use it in reduced sugar angel food cakes.... (It bakes well)
Digg This Story :: Top :: #1 Jun-14-07, 12:12 AM
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Pickles
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Doctor wants me to *increase* my salt intake, since occasionally my blood pressure drops into the 80's, and my normal diet includes very little salt.
Even the pickles I normally eat are home made and totally without salt. Or even sugar.
I figure that increasing salt through vegetables is the only practical way to do it.
SO I am looking for a good pickle recipe, one that can be used without refrigeration, as I am expecting a good cucumber crop soon, and refrigerator space is limited. I would like the recipe to have the minimal amount of salt, and yet be stable in warm weather. And hopefully flavored well enough to go good in a salad. (Unsalted pickles can only be stored in the fridge...)
Any ideas???
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Digg This Story :: Top :: #2 Jun-15-07, 01:37 AM
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Re: Pickles
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snakey's back with the pickles!
These are for canning/jarring; I assume it's the only way to go with low salt.
Did you ever get to employ your Humongous Pickle jars?
SWEET AMISH PICKLES
2 gallons lg. cucumbers
1 pt. salt
Boiling water
1 tbsp. alum
SYRUP:
6 c. vinegar
1/2 oz. cinnamon sticks or half a box
13 c. sugar
1/2 celery seed
Slice large cucumbers. Cover with salt and boiling water; let stand for 1 week. Drain and sprinkle with alum. Cover with boiling water; let stand for 24 hours. Again, drain and cover with boiling water. Let stand for 24 hours more. Drain and cover with syrup (recipe above). Let stand 24 hours. Heat all together and can.
=======
Title: Low-Sodium Pickles
Yield: 6 Pints
Ingredients
1 3 lb. cucumber
1 3 cloves garlic
1 6 heads of dill
1 3 c. vinegar
1 3 c. water
3 tb salt substitute. umm, would REAL salt work here in the same quantity??
Instructions
Use small cucumbers or slice vertically or horizontally. I usually
cut the cukes vertically in fourths for this recipe. Wash, slice if
needed, and pack cucumbers into clean jars. PPlace 2 cloves garlic
and head of fresh dill into each jar. In saucepan, heat vinegar,
water and salt sutstitute to boiling. PPour into jars to fill.
Process in boiling water bath for 10 minutes. Yields six pints.
===
Cukes are good and fine but if you grew BEETS, I would be frothing at the mouth!
Very versatile...delightful pickled and cold, and even more delicious as a warm main dish, Italian style.
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Digg This Story :: Top :: #3 Jun-16-07, 09:59 PM
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Re: Pickles
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Thanks stuffy!
For low sodium pickles I usually put pickes in jar and add apple cider vinegar and enough liquid saccharine till its sweet enough, and throw in some dill and tarragon for good measure.
The only real 'salt substitute' is potassium chloride, which can be good tasting on some foods, but much too bitter for others. Like pickles....
The Amish pickles look good, but I would certainly want to avoid the Alum. Saltpeter. Potassium Aluminum Sulfate. Neither good for health, nor low blood pressure!
Gotta check with the Amish. I did find out from them that the secret to making turkey sausage that totally lacked the bitter flavor typical of ground turkey was to add sugar. I had been specially ordering from them turkey sausage made without salt. And it tastes good.
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Digg This Story :: Top :: #4 Jun-16-07, 10:55 PM
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Re: Pickles
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Teach me master. What's the problem with alum, and isn't saccharin bad for you?
tip exchange for good measure
An old friend from Queens taught me to put a dash of cinnamon in my meatball mix to cut the acid of tomatoe. Also to give the meat a good first 'burn' on the bottom of the pan...and leave it there throughout the cooking.
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Digg This Story :: Top :: #5 Jun-18-07, 12:07 AM
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Re: Pickles
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Alum historically is known as Salt Peter, considered a more polite term than pickled dick. Its hypotensive effects, in effect are the diametric opposite of those smartasses with their wake up pill,
Saccarine is OK Grasshopper, Just dont make javelin spears from what you dont pizz
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Re: Pickles
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Ahh, I see. No no no alum.
Umm, spears as in stones? Huh!
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Re: Pickles
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Digg This Story :: Top :: #8 Jun-19-07, 12:45 AM
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Re: Pickles
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Just dont make javelin spears from what you dont pizz
--------------------
I was half asleep when I wrote that, and so am perplexed as anyone else!
Saccharine got a bad rap many years ago when in one study with rats the amount given caused massive crystallization in the kidneys, with the injury turning into cancerous tumors for many.
Subsequent studies at more realistic doses have never found any harm. Apparently safer than Nutrasweet, and probably most other sweetners. Including sugar...
It makes great pickles, and I use it in reduced sugar angel food cakes.... (It bakes well)