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A homemade Pickling Spice recipe to make refrigerator pickles, overnight pickles, canned pickles, and more! This simple recipe will take you less than 10 minutes.
Simplest Pickling Spice Recipe
This recipe might not be one that you make tomorrow, but when you are in the middle of making pickles (the canned kind or the simple refrigerator kind) and you run out of pickling spice (or your little store doesn't carry it), this might just come in handy. I'm here to save the day, friends, one pickle at a time.
I am pickle crazy, if you haven't noticed. I love normal canned pickles, overnight pickles, pickled peppers, and pickled hot peppers. Heck, I've even been getting into fermented pickles, and they are amazing (is that something you would want to know more about too??). All of them are so great in my opinion, and I'm here to get you excited about making pickles, too.
In the world of homemade pickles, pickling spice is essentially just a blend of spices that you use to season your pickles. It's what makes a good pickle taste like a good pickle!
What is pickling spice made of?
I make mine from a mix of black peppercorns,mustard seeds,coriander seeds,dill seed,allspice berries,bay leaves, and optionalcrushed red pepper flakes. Some recipes include cinnamon, but it's not my favorite in it, so I don't include it.
What recipes do you use pickling spice in?
I have a few pickle recipes that I LOVE and make often. Here's the list:
- Sweet and Spicy Cucumbers and Vinegar
- Quick Dilly Cucumbers in Vinegar
- Homemade Claussen Knock-Off Picklesfrom Foodie with Family (this recipe is AMAZING and I give it as gifts all summer long)
The fun part about those recipes is that you can reuse the brine! I just toss in more cucumbers when we've eaten through the jar of pickles. I'll do this a time or two before tossing out the brine and the cucumbers still taste delicious.
If you’ve tried thispickling spice recipeor any other recipe on Bless this Mess, then don’t forget torate the recipeand leave me a comment below! I would love to hear about your experience making it. And if you snapped some pictures of it, share it with me onInstagramso I can repost on my stories AND add your photo to your comment so that other can see your creation!
Homemade Pickling Spice Recipe
- Author: Melissa Griffiths - Bless this Mess
- Total Time: 5 mins
- Yield: About ½ of a cup 1x
Description
A homemade Pickling Spice recipe to make refrigerator pickles, overnight pickles, canned pickles, and more! This simple recipe will take you less than 10 minutes.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2tablespoonsblack peppercorns
- 2tablespoonsmustard seeds
- 2tablespoonscoriander seeds
- 2tablespoonsdill seed
- 1tablespoonallspice berries
- 2bay leaves,crumbled
- 1tablespooncrushed red pepper flakes, optional
Instructions
- Add all of the ingredients to a small jar with a lid (one cup wide-mouth canning jar works great). Use your fingers to break the bay leaves into small pieces.
- Stir to combine.
- Add a lid and store until needed.
- Prep Time: 5 min
- Cook Time: 0 mins
- Category: Side
- Method: Canning
- Cuisine: American
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And there you have it - your very own pickling spice recipe and a few of my favorite quick pickle recipes to try it with. I don't have a great canned pickle recipe yet (the recipes I've tried have resulted in squishy/soggy pickles), so if you have one, I'd love to know!
Enjoy from my kitchen to yours!
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Comments
Nic
Sounds delicious! Can’t wait to try it. However I’m looking at the nutrition facts and scratching my head … where do all the fats, carbs a & protein come from? Please excuse my ignorance lol I’ve never pickled anything before and haven’t used one of the ingredients before in whole form (allspice berries). Just curious! Thank you for all of your wonderful recipes and stories to go with them!!
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Melissa
I just a paid service and sometimes it's just weird, there's no reason that should have fat in it... I'll try to see if I can get it to fix it.
Helena
The classic! Thank you!
★★★★★
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Thelma Blake
Hi Melissa, Thank you for sharing this recipe. This will be my first time canning Dill Pickles, would you use 1 tsp with dill in making dill pickles?
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Melissa
Yep, it's excellent with dill, you can also use fresh! I like using dill weed instead of the seeds when using dry.
Gp
No. The coriander and all spice is a terrible blend for pickles. You must have never used your recipe . its awful and gives the brine a terrible flavor. Your recipe its set up for failure.
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Ana Branaman
How much of this are you using for a quart jar?
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Melissa
I generally use 1 teaspoon per quart but it depends on what the recipe calls for.
steve a abril
Recipe for Irish-style pickled hard boiled eggs ? perhaps
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Lee
Soak I’m pickling lime for 24 hours. Won’t be mushy
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Sandra Doerr
Some reasons for mushy pickles:
Use water without fluoride or chlorine, do not use table salt, cut the blossom end off cukes. Hope this helps.Reply
Tom Flinn
Hi thanks for the pickling recipe; write me back and ill send my no boil crunchy dill pickles! Thomasflinn@gmail.com hugs Tommy
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Pamela Tautari
Thank you for the great advice for pickling spice. I tried it and totally enjoyed it with my pickling onions.
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