Bread and Butter Pickles

Our very first garden, everything in it could be considered "new" on our list of new veggies to try, but today's post was a unique find. Lemon cucumbers. We saw the pack in Tractor Supply when we were buying our seeds, and this was what gave us the idea to try something new each year. Neither one of us had seen cucumbers like this before, and decided to give them a try. Year one, we planted three vines and only one lived to maturity. Yet we made over 30 pints of bread and butter pickles off the one vine. It is a high yield kind of plant. We gifted a few jars, and they became known in Common Man circles as "those yellow pickles".
This year we moved the vines to the top of the garden, and placed a row of chicken wire for them to run up. We are having excellent results thus far...

We also have a few regular green cucumbers in the batch along with two small "gherkin" cucumber vines at the recommendation of The Alphageek. We have yet to find any of them, and fear they may have been lost.  We've made a couple cannings already this year, but today is our most recent batch and we thought we would share.  We picked on the vines all week, until we had enough for a batch.

Once we had enough cucumbers and peppers, we sliced them up and gave them a two day lime and salt soak in one of our third generation crocks.

After soaking for two days, they were rinsed and prepped for packing

Cupcake made the syrup, using a store bought pack from Wade's Supermarket. We are no way affiliated or paid by the makers of the product, or Wade's Supermarket, just sharing the info

After packing the jars, we filled them with syrup, and into a hot water bath at a rolling boil for ten minutes. End result is seven more pints of "those yellow pickles". Cupcake's Great-Grandmother's cabinet is already full, so we're moving this batch to the basement shelves.

We hope someone found this one informative, and with any luck, we will be able to fill all the requests already in the pipe for pickles.
K&K