Summer is the best time to harvest cucumbers for the winter. After all, salted or pickled cucumbers have always been a favorite snack on the tables of many Russian families. Cucumbers are undeniably recognized as a very useful vegetable, therefore salads are made from them, eaten raw, canned. There are numerous recipes for cucumbers for the winter. There are plenty of ways to pickle, pickle and preserve cucumbers for winter harvesting.
Even an inexperienced novice hostess will always be able to choose for herself a convenient method of pickling and a recipe for spinning cucumbers. It should be noted that among the useful properties of cucumbers such as stimulating digestion, metabolism, they normalize the acid-base balance, cleanse the intestines and even cleanse the skin. They make applications, masks, lotions and cucumber water. Nevertheless, the most common are recipes for cucumbers for the winter.
For example, pickling cucumbers. For her, you always need to choose beautiful, medium-sized and even fruits with black thorns. If you take pickled cucumbers from perishable dessert varieties for pickling , you can get "exploded" cans as a result. Sluggish or soft cucumbers are also not suitable for canning. Usually summer residents get to their site only once a week on weekends, and in hot weather grown vegetables during this time become sluggish.
Such cucumbers can be revived by making a couple of pricks with a fork on the side of the stalk, trim the tips and place them in cold water for 6 hours. By the way, just as you can revive before canning and cucumbers bought on the market. During this time they become stronger and excess air comes out of them. All recipes for rolling cucumbers require careful processing of glass jars, which must first be thoroughly washed and then sterilized.
In glass jars lay cucumbers, spices, herbs and pour hot brine. Before laying in cans, greens should also be washed and rinsed with boiling water. The time for sterilization can be different, but usually does not exceed 20 minutes. After sterilization, the cans are rolled up, turned upside down and covered with a dense cloth so that they do not cool sharply. If in some place the lid has leaked, it is better to open it immediately, and again boil and tighten. Such recipes for cucumbers for the winter allow them to be stored in a cool dark place for up to two years.
For a standard three-liter jar, approximately one and a half kilograms of cucumbers and one and a half liters of brine are approximately required. The salinity of cucumbers directly depends on the amount of salt in the brine and their size, you can not overdo it. But even then there is a way out: you need to put the salted cucumbers for a couple of hours in clean boiled water, but just do not forget that in this case some of the spices will also leave the cucumbers. Therefore, when salting, try to strictly observe the proportions of the required amount of salt and spices.
Also, recipes for cucumbers for the winter can be continued by pickling. To get pickled cucumbers, you need to take three kilograms of cucumbers, 450-500 grams of 6% vinegar, 100 grams of sugar, 100 grams of salt, five red peppers, 10 bay leaves, 50 peas of black and allspice and 40 pieces of cloves. Rinse cucumbers and soak them in cold water for about six hours. Then they need to trim the ends on both sides and scald with boiling water. Place the cucumbers in glass jars, add spices and spices there. For the marinade, you should take one and a half liters of water and vinegar, sugar and salt in the indicated quantities. Hot pickle you need to pour cucumbers with spices in banks, then close the lids and sterilize in boiling water for no more than 20 minutes. After this, you need to try to cool immediately, so that the cucumbers do not become too soft.