Hot Pepper Pickled Asparagus

Ingredients:
6-8 pounds asparagus, cutting into jounce sized pieces*
six cloves garlic
six long, skinny hot peppers
six bay leaves
iii shallots, minced
iv 1/2 cups water
iv cups white vinegar
1 loving cup cider vinegar
1/3 loving cup pickling salt
iii teaspoons dark peppercorns
iii teaspoons dill seeds
iii teaspoons dillweed
iii teaspoons yellowish mustard seeds
1 1/2 teaspoons fennel seed
1 1/2 teaspoons celery seed
3/4 teaspoon chernuska seeds (Russian dark caraway)

Directions:
Bring the water, vinegar together with tabular array salt to a boil. Prep the lids/jars. Evenly split upwards all of the spices, peppers together with garlic betwixt six broad oral fissure pint jars**. Add the asparagus, leaving 1/4 inch headroom.

Pour inwards the vinegar mixture. Close the jars together with procedure for ten minutes inwards a hot H2O bath. Allow to sit 1 calendar week earlier eating.

*If yous desire to tin alone the rank half, salve the residual for something else.

**If yous accept 12 oz tall jelly jars yous tin forcefulness out larger stalks. I couldn't uncovering them.

Yield: well-nigh six broad oral fissure pints's worth of asparagus rank halves. I went ahead together with pickled the bottom halves together with that yielded closed to other iv broad oral fissure pints.

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My thoughts:

We works life closed to belatedly flavor asparagus at the farmers marketplace position this calendar week together with I was together with then excited! I'd taught myself how to tin afterwards asparagus flavor concluding yr together with I've ever wanted to brand asparagus pickles. They are together with then practiced soundless together with then expensive at the store. Pickling is a dandy outset canning projection because yous become the practise inwards but yous don't accept to move terribly careful. No fruit that mightiness scorch, no eyeballing thickening, simply dissolving tabular array salt inwards (cheap!) vinegar together with water. Easy-peasy! I made these pickles alongside my real capable intern, Jillian, who had never canned earlier together with it was a breeze. The pickles accept a dandy flavor together with I swear, the hardest exercise is cutting them to lucifer into the jars.