Fresh cucumbers for winter in jars

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the ingredients according to the list. For such a preparation, you need to use fresh and beautiful young cucumbers. We sort cucumbers, remove damaged fruits, wash thoroughly under running water. Put the cucumbers in a deep container and pour cold water, leave the cucumbers to soak for 4 hours. After the specified time, the cucumbers are washed again. Let the water drain completely. In cucumbers, cut off the tips on both sides.

2. Step 2:

   

   In the meantime, we will prepare the jars for harvesting. I wash the cans with soda with cold water and sterilize them in one of the convenient and proven ways: in a water bath, in the microwave or in the oven. I like the latter method, which allows you to quickly prepare a lot of containers for preservation. Also, in the oven, together with the cans, you can sterilize the washed metal lids.

3. Step 3:

   

   Greens for pickling cucumbers: horseradish leaf, blackcurrant leaves, cherries, dill umbrella – thoroughly washed and dried.

4. Step 4:

   

   For the quantity of products specified in the ingredients, you will need two 1L cans or one 3-liter jar. At the bottom of sterile jars we put greens, two cloves of garlic, a leaf of laurel, a couple of cloves and a couple of peas of allspice. For more flavor, you can put a piece of peeled horseradish root in the jar.

6. Step 5:

   

   We stack cucumbers tightly on top, it is better to place them vertically, they will look more beautiful in a jar and so more fruits will enter the container. We stack cucumbers up to the shoulders of the jar, put the remaining garlic cloves on top. We boil water in a kettle or saucepan, pour boiling water over cucumbers in jars so that it completely covers the contents of the jars.

7. Step 6:

   

   So that the jars do not burst from boiling water, you need to pour it in a thin stream and try to get into the center, not on the glass. Cover the jars with lids and leave for 20 minutes. Then drain the water into a saucepan, add sugar and salt. Bring to a boil, stirring with a spoon, so that the loose completely dissolved. Pour in the table vinegar, let the mixture boil again and turn off the fire.

8. Step 7:

   

   Pour the prepared marinade cucumbers in jars. We roll up the jars with lids, turn them upside down, wrap them with a warm blanket and leave them overnight at room temperature. In the future, the workpiece can be stored in a cool place or at room temperature. Bon appetit!