I had tried homemade pickles once, years and years ago that a family member had made, unfortunately I found them to be WAY too salty…I didn’t know too much about canning at the time and just thought that’s how all homemade pickles tasted and it totally turned me off of ever wanting to make them myself…but, thankfully now I have a lot more knowledge than I did back then, and clearly, I was very wrong!! 

This past growing season was a very good cucumber year for us in the garden, so I decided to finally try canning pickles for the first time! I was supper picky about the taste I was going for as I didn’t want them to be too salty and wanted them to be the perfect combo of sweet, tangy and salty…so, I started searching online and found a canning recipe on Pinterest, I believe it was… that sounded good. I gave it a try and well, let’s just say it was a total failure…the recipe itself had good flavor, but the water bath times per your elevation were too long and I ended up over cooking the pickles in the water bath and they turned to complete mosh!!! Luckily since it was my first try it was a very small batch! 

I decided to keep searching and started looking online again. This time I found the Bernardin Home Canning website. I highly recommend checking their site out if you are new to canning or just looking to try a new recipe! I searched through the site and found a Dill Slices pickling recipe that sounded good and tired it out and it worked so great!! The instructions were easy and straightforward and the pickles turned out delicious and crunchy. For a second attempt it was a great success in my books!! 

If you’d like to try out this pickle recipe, I’ve linked it below as well as in my post above! 

Happy Canning! 

H