I love the idea of canning. Taking something you grew or bought at the store, putting it in a jar, adding some necessities, and viola! You have something you can enjoy for months down the road. I am terrified of actually doing it though. I just made it sound so easy but in reality, to me, it’s scary. What about botulism? What if I get someone sick from something I attempted to can?
That’s why making refrigerator pickles was right up my alley. No canning involved just making a little brine and adding it to my cut up pickles and I’m good to go. I’ll try canning this fall. I promise. But I’m going to have someone who is an expert at it by my side.
I mean, we have so many wonderful things growing in our garden that can and should be canning for future use.
Quick and Easy Refrigerator Pickles
What you’ll need:
Pickling Cucks (baby cucumbers), carrots or whatever you want to pickle
1 cup white vinegar
1 cup water
1 T sugar
1 1/2 t table salt
dill
peppercorns
How to make them:
It’s so easy.
1) Cute the pickling cucumbers in to thin slices or spears.
2. Mix the vinegar, water, salt and sugar together
3. Place several dill sprigs and about a tablespoon of peppercorns in a jar. I used an old pickle jar from some store bought pickles we ate.
4. Fill the jar with the pickle slices or spears and pour the liquid mixture in the jar making sure the liquid fully covers the pickles.
5. Cover with lid and place in refrigerator.
You should be able to eat them the next day and they’ll only get better from there! They will last about a month or so but they never last that long in this house. We are crazed pickle eating people! My favorite is taking a dill pickle, dipping it in hummus and adding hot sauce! See, crazy! And no, I’m not preggers 
Enjoy, we sure are!
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Hi there!!!! I love refrigerator pickles but our recipe is a little different!!! I would love to try this variation.
Thank you for sharing!
What is your recipe? I’d love to try various variations so I’d love to hear yours. Thanks for stopping by!
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I love pickles. I am definitely going to try this. I love the idea of canning too but have never done it. Thanks for sharing at the All Star Block Party.
Of course! Hope you enjoy them!
Your pictures are so beautiful! I’ve always been nervous about canning too, as much as I’d love to try it. I think I just need someone with experience to show me the ways!
Thank you so much! I understand for sure
Amanda – wish I could come and help you can. I love it and honestly – if you follow the canning Bible and process your veggies and such as they tell you – viola! You are a canning queen. What is this Bible? Ball Blue Book Guide to Preserving. I also have some “secrets” for making the best picked. Email me and I will share. Then you can blog about it. Love you sweetie. Lynn
It looks super easy! I love canning. Great recipe! I would love if you link this to the Mega Mason jar link party on my blog.
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Isabelle
Easy peasy – then you can use the pickle juice to make pickled hard-boiled eggs.
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I love pickles…My grandmother used to spend days making them and the whole house reeked of vinegar! I myself like to make small batches like these…Yours look delish!
Don’t be afraid of canning. It’s not scary. A great place to start is with dilly beans or pickled mushrooms. They are almost impossible to screw up. I make similar fridge pickles, but without sugar. Right now there are about 25 jars of them in my fridge. They take up about 1/3 of the space in there! I also pickle broccoli stalks using the same brine as the pickles.
Thanks so much for sharing with us at Someday Crafts! I will be featuring your project tomorrow on our blog. Thanks for the inspiration!
Oh I’m going to try these! My neighbors gave us a bunch of pickling cucumbers and this is right up my alley too!
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You are SO sweet! Thank you so much for the kind words. I’ll be by your blog to say hi soon!
I found your blog through the Make it Pretty Monday Linky party and have enjoyed it, so I plan on following you from now on. I’ve made pickles in a similar way before but with a splash of sesame oil and sesame seeds for a different twist instead of dill. Yours look wonderful!
Oh, sesame oil and sesame seeds?! That sounds really interesting! Thanks so much for sharing and I just may have to try that. I’m super excited you are a new follower as well
I kind of afraid of canning too. So this is what I will do with all of the cumbers that are growing in the my garden. Thanks!
I made refrigerator pickles this season too and had to come check out your recipe. It’s funny, I have a canning phobia as well & for the same reasons. I’ve set a goal for myself to learn how to can next pickling cucumber season so I can enjoy them for more than one month a year
Oh, wow, these look so yummy and the recipe is so simple. Definitely going to try =)
It looks so easy! Thank you for sharing this at my Make it Pretty Monday party at The Dedicated House. Hope to see your prettiness again on Monday. Toodles, Kathryn @TheDedicatedHouse
My 3 year old daughter and I are making these right now. I’ve never done any canning before! Thanks for the easy recipe!
Oh good! That makes me so happy! Thanks so much for stopping by!