Marinated crunchy cucumbers enjoy wide popularity among recipes of house conservation. Their preparation won't take a lot of time, and the result will pleasantly please all fans of house preparations for the winter.
Ingredients necessary for preparation of a cucumber pickles
- about 1 kg of small fresh cucumbers;
- leaves of currant and horse-radish;
- young umbrellas of fennel;
- half of a small head of garlic;
- on 5-6 peas black and allspice;
- 1.5 tablespoons of sugar;
- 1 table. salt l;
- 2 tsps of 70% vinegar.
We cook crunchy pickles for the winter
1. An important stage - the choice of cucumbers for preparation for the winter. For this recipe it is necessary to pick up not too big cucumbers with rather firm peel. Their length shouldn't exceed 11-12 cm. Best of all dark green pimply cucumbers of the average size will approach, they will well be kept waiting and will crackle.
2. Cucumbers it is necessary to wash up, cut off at them ""buttocks"" and to fill in with very cold water approximately for three hours.
3. It will be during this time possible to prepare banks and covers (to wash up, sterilize). Will be suitable for this quantity of cucumbers one bank of 2 liters or two liter.
4. On a bottom to put 3 peas of each type of pepper in ready one-liter jars, on 2-3 washed-up leaves of currant, according to one leaf of horse-radish and on a fennel umbrella. It is also necessary to put 2-3 zubka of garlic in banks.
5. Then it is necessary to spread out densely soaked cucumbers on banks, if necessary some of them can be cut in half.
6. Each can with cucumbers needs to be filled in with abrupt boiled water, to cover with a cover and to leave for 10-15 minutes.
7. During this time it is necessary to prepare marinade. In liter of water to pour out salt, several peas of pepper and sugar, to boil. Then at once to add vinegar to the boiling marinade, to prevent and remove from fire.
8. From cucumbers to drain hot water and to fill in banks with ready marinade practically to the edges. At once to roll up cucumbers sterile covers.
9. Put cups on a towel a bottom up and check tightness of covers. If liquid is emitted, then the bank should perezakatat urgently with other sterile cover.
10. It is good to cover and leave banks in such look approximately for day, then to put in a cellar, the storeroom or other cool place.