Cucumber Cubes
Crunchy, sweet, and tangy cucumber cubes preserved with spices, perfect as a refreshing snack or condiment for summer meals and picnics.
Ingredients
Instructions
- Put cucumber cubes and salt in a gallon jar or crock; pour 1/2 gallon of boiling water over cucumbers and salt.
- Let stand for 1 week, stirring every day with a wooden or plastic spoon.
- Drain and add alum and the other 1/2 gallon of boiling water.
- Let stand for 24 hours.
- Drain and make syrup by boiling sugar, vinegar, mustard seed, and pickling spice.
- Place mustard seed and spices in a cloth or spice ball.
- Pour the hot syrup over the cucumbers in the gallon jar.
- Reheat the syrup every day for 4 days and pour it back over the cucumber cubes.
- On the fifth day, pack cucumbers into pint jars.
- Heat the syrup again and pour over the cubes in pint jars.
- Seal the jars and process in boiling water bath for 5 minutes.
Nutrition & Diet Analysis (per serving)
126
kcal
6% DV
Protein
Fat
Carbs
* % Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie diet (FDA 2020).