Cucumbers are one of my favorite garden veggies. They are so versatile. You can make pickles out of them, eat them raw and even make them sweet and crunchy.
I had intended to make refrigerator pickles with our harvest but time got away from me. By the time I would get in the garden to pick them they were way too big. The seeds had to be scraped out of them as they were hard and made the cucumbers bitter. So I decided to try a recipe I had never done before, Sweet Cinnamon Pickles!
They are so crisp and sweet! I remember eating them at Christmas time at my in-laws house and loved them. The recipe is rather time consuming but well worth the time and effort. I found the recipe HERE.
Red Cinnamon Pickles
7 pounds peeled, seeded cucumbers in strips
1 cup lime
1 gallon water
1 cup vinegar
1 bottle red food coloring
1 tablespoon alum
Enough water to cover pickles
3 cups vinegar
2 cups water
10 cups granulated sugar
2 to 3 large packages Red Hots cinnamon candies (see NOTE)
8 sticks cinnamon
Soak cucumbers, lime and 1 gallon water for 24 hours.
Wash cucumbers. Soak in ice water for 3 hours. Mix 1 cup vinegar, food coloring, alum and enough water to cover pickles. Simmer in this mixture 2 hours.
Pour off liquid and throw away. Boil 3 cups vinegar, 2 cups water, sugar, candies and cinnamon. Pour over cucumbers. Let stand 24 hours.
Drain liquid and bring to boil. Put cucumbers into jars with 1 to 2 sticks cinnamon in each jar. Pour hot liquid over jars and seal.
NOTE: This information is from Yvonne in Mississippi.
DO NOT use red hots candy that lists cornstarch as an ingredients. They will not work for this recipes. The brand to use is Farley's which uses sucrose, corn syrup, artificial flavor, red 40 and beeswax. This will work great and the pickles will be free of white matter after processing is done.
1 cup lime
1 gallon water
1 cup vinegar
1 bottle red food coloring
1 tablespoon alum
Enough water to cover pickles
3 cups vinegar
2 cups water
10 cups granulated sugar
2 to 3 large packages Red Hots cinnamon candies (see NOTE)
8 sticks cinnamon
Soak cucumbers, lime and 1 gallon water for 24 hours.
Wash cucumbers. Soak in ice water for 3 hours. Mix 1 cup vinegar, food coloring, alum and enough water to cover pickles. Simmer in this mixture 2 hours.
Pour off liquid and throw away. Boil 3 cups vinegar, 2 cups water, sugar, candies and cinnamon. Pour over cucumbers. Let stand 24 hours.
Drain liquid and bring to boil. Put cucumbers into jars with 1 to 2 sticks cinnamon in each jar. Pour hot liquid over jars and seal.
NOTE: This information is from Yvonne in Mississippi.
DO NOT use red hots candy that lists cornstarch as an ingredients. They will not work for this recipes. The brand to use is Farley's which uses sucrose, corn syrup, artificial flavor, red 40 and beeswax. This will work great and the pickles will be free of white matter after processing is done.
The times are flexible as I started to make these late at night and let them soak in ice water longer then it had required. Then I had to run errands the next day so the cucumbers soaked in the liquid longer then required. And they still turned out wonderful!
I had fun making them and I can't wait to give them as gifts at Christmas time :-)
Happy Harvest!
6 comments:
I've never heard of these cinnamon pickles, but they look very good.
Thanks for visiting my blogs. It was nice to see you back! I wanted to tell you that in our area, they have opened a Hobbly Lobby store! I was so excited to hear this and now I can't wait to go and check it out! It's only about half an hour from here. I always read about others visiting their Hobby Lobby store and finding some good buys and I was so glad to hear about this one being so close by!!
Have a good week Mandie!
Wow now that is not a canning recipe you see ever day I love it!! Looks yummy I may need to try this my daughter and I want to start canning and she really wants to make pickles I think she would have fun with this one ~Thanks for sharing I need to print this out ~Love Heather
Great recipe and pictures! Thanks for sharing.
I think that your red cinnamon pickles are going to be perfect for Christmas giving!
Have a happy day :)
Lovely recipe and it looks gorgeous. Might have to give it a go soon. All of our veg in the garden this year got ruined by the heat while we were away so no harvest for us this year but doesn't mean I can't buy ingredients & give it a try ;)
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NUMMY!!! These are Delish...I am so going to miss you at Christmas...You most.... but your pecan scotchies too ;-).....Your hubby needs to get on his brother about Thanksgiving.... ;-)
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