Pickled cucumbers under a nylon lid for winter

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Pickled cucumbers should be soaked in cold water for at least one hour. The pickling variety is distinguished by prickly pimples on cucumbers. Smooth cucumbers are not suitable for salting. Well, at least I've never seen anything like it.

2. Step 2:

   

   After the cucumbers have lain in the water enough, they should have the tips cut off on both sides. While you are not working with cucumbers, let them lie in the water for a while.

3. Step 3:

   

   There is no point in pre-sterilizing jars for salting according to this recipe. They just need to be thoroughly washed with ordinary baking soda. Put the chopped garlic on the bottom.

4. Step 4:

   

   Add bay leaf.

5. Step 5:

   

   Then a few peas of black pepper. There can be no exact proportions for spices in salting. Someone likes it sharper, someone - more gentle, so everything is to taste.

6. Step 6:

   

   The same goes for hot pepper. You can put more of it, or you can not add it at all.

7. Step 7:

   

   Then put the umbrellas of dill on the bottom of the jar.

9. Step 8:

   

   Now you need to distribute the cucumbers in the jar close to each other.

10. Step 9:

    

    Pour salt directly into the jar, without diluting it in water. 100 gr.salt per liter of water. The brine must be over-salted!

11. Step 10:

    

    Pour raw drinking water into the jar. I pour directly from the tap.

12. Step 11:

    

    Close the jar with a nylon lid and be sure to put it on a plate or on a tray. This is necessary in order to prevent the spillage of brine. Leave the jars at room temperature for four days.

13. Step 12:

    

    On the fourth day, cucumbers will already have time to ferment. The brine will become cloudy, and the cucumbers themselves will change color.

14. Step 13:

    

    Carefully pour the brine into a saucepan and bring to a boil. Boil for three minutes. While the brine is boiling, pour the lids with plain boiling water.

15. Step 14:

    

    And pour the brine into the jars again, trying not to get boiling water directly on the glass. Otherwise it may burst. Pour boiling water in the middle, on cucumbers. Close the jars with sterilized nylon lids, cool and put away for storage.