Wash 5 pint jars, lids and the screw bands in warm soapy water. Rinse and set aside. Place rack in the bottom of the canner. Place jars on top of the rack. Fill canner with water until it covers the ...

“It smells like dill pickles in here.” That from my husband, Frank, yesterday as he was coming into the kitchen from outside and the aroma of vinegar, pickling spices, garlic and dill wafted clear out ...

Where have all the pickles gone? It wasn’t so long ago that every well-dressed American dinner table was bejeweled with an assortment of them -- emerald green tomatoes, ruby red beets and opalescent ...

Millennia before Louis Pasteur discovered the bacteria-killing process known as pasteurization, our ravenous forbears found that foods lasted longer if they were treated to various procedures. Before ...

Kung has pickled everything from okra to green tomatoes to daikon radish, and says it’s nothing to fear, even for beginners. “People feel more comfortable buying pickles from somebody than making it ...

As the August harvest fills up baskets with a rainbow of veggies at green markets and as urban gardens hit their seasonal highs, home cooks now have plenty of produce to pickle vegetables. When it ...