This is a Feast! Grandma's Virginia Chunk Pickles


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Cover with crushed ice and mix well. Let stand 3 hours. Drain; rinse and drain thoroughly. In a Dutch oven, combine sugar, water, vinegars, mustard seed, celery seed and peppercorns. Bring to a boil, stirring to dissolve sugar. Add cucumber mixture; return to a boil, stirring occasionally. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, 4-5 minutes or until.


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I found recipes titled things such as Virginia Sweet Chunk Pickles and Grandma's 14 Day Fermented Chunk Pickles that my father confirmed were close, very close. So I made a small batch.


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Day 14. One the sugar has dissolved completely, you can pack the sweet pickles into jars. Sterilize jars, lids and rings. Spoon pickles into pint-sized jars. Be sure to leave ½ inch of headspace and make sure the pickle slices are covered with syrup. Wipe the jars clean before adding the lids and rings.


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The second thing I ever pickled and canned was Mawmaw Ellis' Virginia Chunk Sweet Pickles. Mawmaw Ellis died when I was six years old. She was my Great Gre.


several jars filled with pickles sitting on top of a table

Ingredients: 75 pickling cucumbers 4 to 5 inches long or use 2 gallons of small cukes. (You can use just about any kind of cucumber, but pickling cukes work better)


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JOSIE'S VIRGINIA CHUNK SWEET. PICKLES. 75 cucumbers, 4 or 5 inches long or 2 gal. sm. ones. Salt (use salt that is especially for canning) Melt brine of a proportion of 2 cups salt to 1 gallon water; boil and pour over cucumbers. Weight down to keep under brine. Let stand 1 week. In hot weather, skim daily. Drain and cut in chunks.


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Virginia Chunk Sweet Pickles. 75 cucumbers 4 or 5 inches long, or 2 gallons small ones; Or use what you have; most any nice solid cucumber makes a nice pickle; MAKE brine of a proportion of 2 cups salt to one gallon water, boil and pour over cucumbers boiling hot. Weight down to keep under brine. Let stand one week. In hot weather skim daily.


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Virginia sweet pickle chunks. Yield: 6 Servings. Measure Ingredient; 75 \N: Cucumbers; 4-5 inches long or-2 gallons: Smaller cucumbers \N \N: Powdered alum \N \N: Salt \N \N: Sugar. Chocolate chunk cookies; Martha's virginia cake; Old virginia ketchup; Old virginia pound cake; Orange chocolate chunk cookies; Oyster sauce for virginia ham.


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VIRGINIA CHUNK PICKLES. 75 cucumbers, 4-5 inches long or 2 gallons of small ones. Make a brine of a proportion of 2 cups salted to one gallon of water. Boil and pour over cucumbers boiling hot. Weight down to keep under brine. Let stand 1 week. In hot weather skim daily. Drain and cut in chunks. For the next 3 mornings make a boiling hot.


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Make a solution of 6 c. vinegar, 5 c. sugar, 1/3 c. pickling spice, and 1 tbl celery seed. Heat to boiling and pour over cucumbers. On the fifth morning, drain liquid off of cukes into a large pan and add 2 c. sugar. Heat to boiling and pour over pickles. On the sixth morning, drain pickles into a saucepan and add 1 c. sugar.


This is a Feast! Grandma's Virginia Chunk Pickles

Day 1: Chunk cucumbers and add to a 5 gallon bucket with 2 cups salt and 1 gallon water. Let stand for 3 days making sure to mix everyday and to somehow press the pickles down so that they stay below the brine (I put a plate on top with the gallon jug of vinegar on top). Day 4: Drain, cover with clear water, let stand for 24 hours. Day 5: Drain.


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VIRGINIA CHUNK SWEET PICKLES. Make brine of 2 cups salt to 1 gallon water. Boil and pour boiling water over cucumbers. Let stand 1 week in hot weather. Skim daily. Drain and cut into chunks. The next 3 mornings make a boiling hot solution of 1 gallon water and 1 tablespoon alum and pour over pickles (fresh hot bath for 3 mornings).


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Boil and pour over cucumbers. Let stand 1 week. (In hot weather, skim daily). Drain and cut in chunks. For the next 3 mornings, make a boiling solution of 1 gallon water 1 tablespoon powdered alum. Drain first solution and pour water-alum solution over cucumbers. Make a fresh solution each day. On the 4th day, drain and discard alum water.


This is a Feast! Grandma's Virginia Chunk Pickles

directions. Drain pickles and cut into chunks or thick slices. Combine sugar, vinegar and spices in small saucepan. Bring to a boil, stirring until sugar dissolves. Put pickles and garlic in jar and add sugar mixture. Cover, cool and refrigerate.


This is a Feast! Grandma's Virginia Chunk Pickles

Day 2: Drain the water on the cucumbers and cover them with salt and fresh boiling water. Day 3: Add the powdered alum to the cucumbers before adding the boiling water. Day 4: Drain the pickles and add the pickling spice packet to the jar. Bring the cider vinegar to a boil and pour it over the cucumbers.

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