Can I use dry dill, if I run out of fresh?

C

crazychickens

Leafing Out
Joined
Apr 4, 2008
Messages
14
Reaction score
0
Points
22
Location
Belleville Wis
Im trying to keep up with my cucumbers, but I have more cucs than fresh dill.

I want to can all the cucs and let none go to waist.

Can I use dry dill to can pickles?

What is the ratio fresh to dry?

Do I buy the dry dill seeds or the stuff that looks like bits of fern?

Can I use the same recipes?

Do you have any recipes for pickles that use dry dill?

Thank-you
 
P

patandchickens

Deeply Rooted
Joined
Nov 23, 2007
Messages
2,537
Reaction score
2
Points
153
Location
Ontario, Canada
This doesn't exactly answer your question (personally I loathe dill pickles so have never had much interest in how they're made :p) but if you are trying to absorb a glut of cukes you could always make *other* pickled-cucumber things, like bread-and-butter pickles or icicle pickles or one of the relishes that has lots of cucumbers in.

Or just buy some fresh dill at the market, or bum some from a neighbor ;)

Good luck,

Pat
 
C

crazychickens

Leafing Out
Joined
Apr 4, 2008
Messages
14
Reaction score
0
Points
22
Location
Belleville Wis
I just got done canning a bunch of Bread and butter pickles. :) My kids LOVE them in winter.

I went to the store in town and they said they didnt carry fresh. So I went to the store in the next town and they said they dont order it any more because people dont use it.

If, I can use dry- from the store dill then I'll try Hamburger dills from the "Ball Blue Book" they sound good in a sandwich!

If not I'm off to figure out what to do with all these beans.


Right after I break up my fighting kids.
 
N

newchickwi

Leafing Out
Joined
Apr 10, 2008
Messages
15
Reaction score
0
Points
21
Location
Butternut, WI
You can use dry dill, either the weed or the seed. You may end up with a cloudy, but still edible, product. In one recipe I have for fresh pack/quick process dills (from the U of WI Extension) it says that you can sub 1 Tbsp dry dill (weed or seed) for each 1- 11/2 head of dill in each pint jar.

HTH,
Vikki
 
blurose

blurose

Garden Ornament
Joined
May 25, 2008
Messages
313
Reaction score
0
Points
94
After waiting for DS to come home from work and bring me the fresh dill (he works freight crew at the biggest grocery store in town), he forgot to get it. So, I made dill chips with some dried dill weed that I had in the pantry. I used 1 Tbsp per pint jar, and the pickles came out tasting really well, and the brine has stayed clear. However, my 2-year-old grandson, who incidentally LOVES pickles, won't touch them. He says they have "grass" all over them. :lol:
 
A

averytds

Chillin' In The Garden
Joined
Jul 20, 2008
Messages
77
Reaction score
0
Points
29
Location
KS
You can put seeds and other spices in a bag for hot pack. Then you just take the bag out. Pantyhose, flour sack towels, pillowcase, cheesecloth, etc.
 
janetnjim

janetnjim

Garden Ornament
Joined
Jun 2, 2008
Messages
150
Reaction score
0
Points
84
Location
S.W. Pa.
Untill this year crazychickens we have used the sotre bot dill, the kind you refer to as "lookin like ferns" and our dill pickles have allways been scrrrrrrrrumptious :D
We're tryin to grow our own fresh dill for picklin but our chickens keep findin a way into the garden and eatin it. :barnie
MMMmmmmmmm...wunder if we let 'em eat enough will they lay pickled eggs :gig
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Latest posts

Sister Sites

BackYardChickens.com
BackYardHerds.com
SufficientSelf.com
Top