Fermenting Pickles

So, our local farmer's market opened yesterday so I swung by to check it out. It's still really early, so there were mostly just greens and other early spring veggies available, but I did pick up some pickling cucumbers. I started fermenting them today and should hopefully have delicious dill pickles in a few weeks.

It's pretty easy to ferment the pickles. The recipe I used was from "For the Love of Pickles". You just load up a jar or crock with all your veggies and ingredients. In this case - cucumbers, garlic, mustard seeds, dill, allspice seeds, peppercorns, and red pepper flakes.

Then mix up your brine (water and pickling salt) and cover your veggies with brine.

Then put a Ziploc bag in the top of the jar, and fill with the remaining brine. This should create an airlock and prevent nasties from making a home in your pickles. 

The hard part is waiting 2 weeks til they are ready to eat! Will update you then and if the recipe is successful - will post it in it's entirety.