Cucumbers in Bulgarian for winter

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make cucumbers in Bulgarian for the winter? All cucumbers that are planned to be pickled or salted (it does not matter) should be pre-soaked in cold water. The minimum is two hours. In general, the longer the better. Cucumbers after this procedure will become as crispy as possible. And, importantly, they will retain their crispness even after marinating.

2. Step 2:

   

   I had cucumbers in the water for about four hours in the refrigerator. Then I washed them thoroughly and cut off the tips on both sides. And put them back in the water until it was their turn.

3. Step 3:

   

   Cans should be thoroughly washed with ordinary baking soda. And then sterilize in any way. It is more convenient for me to sterilize cans in a microwave oven. Mainly because I don't harvest large volumes of pickles. But there are other methods of sterilization, for example, in the oven. And if you really want to plunge into the Soviet period, I recommend steam sterilization - over a pot of boiling water with a special lid.

4. Step 4:

   

   For this recipe I use screw thread caps. And additionally, I sterilized them by boiling in ordinary water for three minutes.

5. Step 5:

   

   So, put a small bay leaf and black pepper in clean jars.

6. Step 6:

   

   Wash the parsley sprigs and put them in jars. Peel the onion and cut it into half rings. Add the onion to the jars. Plus a few buds of fragrant cloves. At this point, the spices are pumped, since there is nothing else in the original recipe besides them. No garlic, no horseradish, no dill, no other salted greens familiar to us.

8. Step 7:

   

   Put cucumbers in jars vertically, close to each other.

9. Step 8:

   

   Put the marinade water on the fire and bring to a boil. Add salt and sugar. Boil for three minutes. Salt and sugar should dissolve. Pour in the vinegar and wait for it to boil again. Then immediately fill the jars with marinade, trying not to get boiling water directly on the glass. Otherwise it may burst.

10. Step 9:

    

    Pour the marinade in the center, right on the cucumbers.

11. Step 10:

    

    Take the jar with potholders or a towel and put it on a napkin in a larger pot. Fill the pan with hot water.

12. Step 11:

    

    Cover the jars with lids without twisting! Put the pan on medium heat and bring the water to a boil. From now on, sterilize the jars for ten minutes. If the jar is three liters, the sterilization time will be half an hour. If two liters - twenty minutes, respectively.