Harvesting cucumbers for the winter

Harvesting cucumbers for the winter is a priorityin the summer for efficient owners. Indeed, without a salted or pickled crispy cucumber, not a single table is complete. It is an indispensable component for many salads, and also an excellent snack for vodka.

Delicious blanks for the winter: cucumbers marinated with pepper

A three-liter can take from 10 to 14cucumbers, depending on their size. For marinade: three small Bulgarian peppers, 10 peas of black pepper, 9 cloves of garlic, 3 pcs. carnations, two laurel leaves, 5 teaspoons of vinegar, three onions, 3 tablespoons. spoons of salt and twice as much sugar. Billets of cucumbers for the winter should be rolled into sterilized jars. A three-liter jar should be kept above steam for at least 20 minutes.

At this time, they clean the garlic cloves and cut themin two parts, wash and clean Bulgarian pepper, cut it with straw. Bulbs clean and divide into 4-6 parts. Then, when the bank is ready to cool a little, fill it cucumbers, onions and peppers, trying to spread them over the entire volume. They put pepper and laurushka - part in the middle, part on the bottom, part from above.

Prepare brine for pouring - put in a pansalt and sugar, add half a liter of water. Boil until the salt and sugar dissolve, then pour the brine into a jar, add the boiling water to the required volume and add the vinegar. The can is rolled up and turned upside down several times so that the brine is distributed evenly.

Harvesting cucumbers for the winter with horseradish leaves

Take small cucumbers (12-16 pcs. 3 litters of cherry, laurel leaf, a dozen black peppercorns, 2 large dill umbrellas, 6 garlic cloves.

Cucumbers washed and soaked overnight. Fill the cans - at the bottom put a sheet of horseradish, then cucumbers, and dill, pepper, currant leaves and cherries are distributed throughout the volume. Boil 2 liters of water and dissolve in it 100 g of salt. Pour the resulting solution of cucumber, seal the jar with a plastic lid and leave for a couple of days. Then drain the water, boil it again, add garlic to the jars, refill the brine in them and roll them up with metal covers.

It is best to harvest cucumbers for the winterin the marinade. For canning, take 2 and 3-liter cans, wash them and sterilize. For 5 liters of water (this is approximately 3 three-liter cans of cucumbers), you need 7 tablespoons of salt and 5 sugars, 1/3 cup of 6% vinegar. In addition, spices will be needed: 2 currant leaves, horseradish root, a pair of dill umbrellas, 3 cloves of garlic, 4 cloves and 6 peas of black pepper. The water is heated, it is poured into it with salt and sugar and boiled until completely dissolved. Cucumbers and seasoning are put in cans. Filter the solution through the gauze and fill them with filled cans. After about 20 minutes, the water is drained from the cans, boiled again and again, the cucumbers are poured and rolled up.

Salted and pickled cucumbers are not the only possible harvesting of cucumbers for the winter. Very tasty is a cucumber salad with vegetables.

For preparation it is required (per liter jar): 8-10 small cucumbers, 4 cloves of garlic, 2 medium carrots and 2 onions, 4 peas of pepper, bay leaf and 2 teaspoons of dried dill seeds (or 1 fresh dill umbrella). Purified carrots are ground on a coarse grater. Washed cucumbers cut into circles, and onions - thin rings. The can is filled with layers: cucumbers, carrots, onions, again cucumbers, again carrots, and so on until the whole pot is filled. Between the layers uniformly lay seasoning and spices. Pour marinade - per liter of water take 0.5 cups of salt, a glass of sugar and half a cup of 9% of vinegar. Marinade is boiled and poured into them jars of vegetables.

Harvesting cucumbers for the winter is a troublesome and time-consuming task. On the other hand, what could be better than crunching a juicy cucumber in the winter?