Pickle

The cucumbers are in! Yes, it's that time again; picklin' time. Our cucumber plants are just blowing up. It is getting difficult to keep up with them. So that means, time to warm up the water and get our cannin' on. We have made these sweet hot pickles for the past couple of years, usually getting enough jars for every 'Canes football game. But those were pint jars. This year, after purchasing a nice large pickling pot with the insert so that we can lower and lift the jars in and out of the pot, we upped the ante and leveled up to quart jars.

Another week, another batch of cucumbers. This week we had 3½ pounds. Of course, we could have done another batch of the sweet hots and I would be perfectly happy, but we decided to mix it up a bit and do some bread and butter pickles. A quick Wikipedia search turned up this, regarding the name: