Recipe of Homemade Ice Box Pickles

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, ice box pickles. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Ice Box Pickles is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Ice Box Pickles is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook ice box pickles using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Ice Box Pickles:

1. Get 1 head cauliflower
2. Make ready 7 cup cucumber diced, with seeds removed
3. Make ready 1/2 cup onion, sliced
4. Make ready 1/2 cup sliced red or green pepper, or a combination of both
5. Make ready 2 cup sugar**
6. Take 1 cup vinegar
7. Get 1 tbsp coarse salt
8. Prepare 1 tsp mustard seed
9. Take 1 tsp celery seed
10. Take 2 large mason jars

Steps to make Ice Box Pickles:

1. Cut up all vegetables into a large container or bowl (1 gallon capacity approx.)
2. Combine vinegar, spices, salt, and **sugar into a jar and shake well. With the sugar, 2 cups is fairly sweet, so if you want a sweeter pickle use all 2 cups. For a tarter pickle use less. I started with 1 ½ cups in the jar and taste tested. I used about 1 ⅔ cups of sugar.
3. Pour the liquid over the cut up vegetables, cover and refrigerate 12 – 24 hrs stirring every 6 - 8 hrs or so, making sure all the vegetables are evenly coated.
4. The vegetable mass you started with will drop considerably and the liquid mass will double to triple in volume.
5. Divide your pickled vegetables into 2 jars and cover with the liquid left in the container.
6. Theses pickles will keep for 3 months in the refrigerator, if they last that long! Enjoy! :)

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