Frugal Foodie Mama: sweet pickles recipe

Friday, August 23, 2013

Easy Refrigerator Bread & Butter Pickles

These Easy Refrigerator Bread & Butter Pickles are sweet & crunchy and ready in just a day, no canning! 










Gardening season is winding down here.  My tomatoes are kaput.  But they haven't been doing very well for weeks now.  I blame those creepy looking, aggressive tomato hornworms...






I know, I know... they are harmless.  You can just pluck them off with your fingers.  
Ummmmm... no.






I refused to touch them.  They look like something straight out of an Alien movie.
And they have teeth... have you seen those teeth??






But anyways, this post is about homemade pickles not nasty hornworms and my poor, poor tomato plants.






My cucumber plants have been doing just the opposite.  They have been producing like crazy! I picked 4 or 5 pretty large ones off all at once the week before last and knew it was time to get down to some pickle making.  






Those of you who follow me on Instagram saw some of the pickle making process in my stream and started asking for the recipe. 






The recipe isn't mine per say.  I have been using this one that I found on the Brown Eyed Baker's blog since last summer.






It is a classic and easy refrigerator bread & butter pickles recipe.  I basically just doubled her recipe since I had so many cucumbers and it yielded me four pint jars of pickles.