Traditional Newfoundland Bread and Butter Pickles
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If you are looking for a lovely bread and butter pickle recipe, you are in the right place. Make yourself a cup of tea and seat back and watch my 20 minute video of making these delicious pickles.
If you haven't made pickles before don't worry I will help you from start to finish, I will start with a little info about these lovely pickles and end with a few bloopers to keep you entertained. Have the ingredients and mason jars ready to go, this is the most work to making these bread and butter pickles.
We all know having your mason jars sterilized and ready to go is very important, next ingredients and having them cleaned and chopped to start the first stage.
Have I got you interested yet in making these delicious bread and butter pickles, this is a old traditional recipe that have been made by generations of people throughout the years. Stories told that they were used to make sandwiches with in the great depression when people couldn't afford sandwich meat only homemade bread and butter years ago people made all their own food and these pickles would be the spread that went over their bread to enjoy.
Homemade white bread was a big part of having bread and butter pickles, years ago this would be a delicious sandwich for any meal time. I will share with you my recipe and link for Homemade White Bread just in case you would like to make that as well to have with your bread and butter pickles. 🙂
Traditional Newfoundland Homemade White Bread
I will share with you a link to my cookbook sold on amazon, just send me a message if you are interested. This recipe for Homemade White Bread is in there.
Please continue on to my recipe for Bread and Butter Pickles and so much more information.
Ingredients
- Mini cucumbers - 8 cups, thinly sliced
- Sea salt - 2 tbsp
- White onions - 8 cups, thinly sliced
- White vinegar - 2 cups
- White sugar - 1 1/2 or 2 cups ( your choice )
- Celery seeds - 1 tsp
- Yellow Mustard - 2 tbsp
- Turmeric - 1 tsp
- White pepper - 1/2 tsp
- Bay leaves and pickling spice - In a cheese cloth
- Ice cubes - 4-5 cups
- Mustard seeds - 1 Tbsp
Instructions
Bread and Butter Pickles
- In a large boiler add, cucumbers, onions and sea salt, cover with ice cubes let stand for 2 or 3 hours.
- Add more ice if needed.
- Then combine vinegar, sugar, celery seeds, mustard and mustard seeds, turmeric and white pepper, in another boiler.
- Place boiler on a medium heat, bring quickly to boil and then boil for 10 minutes.
- Then drain off water good from veggies then add cucumbers and onions to mustard mixture bring to boiling point, then remove from heat.
- Add equal amounts to your prepared mason jars and clean around rims before putting caps and lids on, then bottle in a large canning boiler, follow recipe below.
- Sterilizing and Canning Procedures
Sterilization method::
1. Start by getting a large boiler and filling in about quarter full of water.
2. Then starting the water to a boil and placing your Mason jars inside then cover.
3. After let the pot boil for about 15-20 then remove your bottles and place them on paper towels or a cloth.
Canning Procedures:
1. After your food items are cooked and ready to bottle, scoop hot liquid and put inside your Mason jars.
2. Continue doing this until all bottles are complete and leaving 1/2 inch on top.
3. Clean around the top of your bottles removing any food of rims.
4. Then place caps and lids on your jars and tighten.
5. Then place your jars back in hot water bath and start the boil for another 5 minutes with the cover on boiler.
Helpful Hints: Celery Seed Substitute. One teaspoon of celery seed equals 2 tablespoons minced celery tops. Other options are dill seed or celery salt (reduce the salt elsewhere in the recipe).
Celery seeds are ground and combined with salt to make celery salt. This results in celery seed and celery salt having similar flavors except that celery salt offers the flavor of two spices instead of one. ... You will have to use more of it if to increase the celery flavor in your dish.
So if you substitute celery salt for celery seed don’t use sea salt at the beginning only celery salt.
Continuing on with more information about bread and butter pickles and the best way to make them, I will share more photos for you to check out before you get started.Â
Mini pickles and white onions are the two main ingredients in making these delicious bread and butter pickles.Â
Pictures say a thousand words when it comes to food, you know a wise woman told me before you eat with your eyes and nose before you eat with your mouth. THIS IS TRUE!Â
Before you make your bread and butter pickles get your mason jars and lids ready to use, follow my simple method to sterilizing and canning procedure and I will provide a video link soon.
Don’t forget to take a few minutes to check out our video tutorial on how to make these delicious bread and butter pickles, and the recipe is available for you to follow as well. These pickles are ready to eat the minute you bottle them, but the longer you store them the better they will become.
The beauty of freshly cut veggies and the taste is so good, making any food for you and your family should be about freshness and homemade.
Thank you so much for taking the time for visiting our website today, I hope I’ve convinced you to make these delicious bread and butter pickles. Please leave us a message before you go and from our kitchen to yours have a wonderful day. 🙂 BonitaÂ
Well Bonita i mage your sofa bread for the guys cutting wood: loved the taste and texture: Bread and butter pickles next, let you know if it was went well, Also taking the outer ring off of the jars that are well sealed is a tried and true thing in my family: my husband just won’t go along; I’m trying really hard to get him to understand but, Thanks for your great recipes
Hi Diana: Thank you for your message and for stopping by, I’m glad you are enjoying our recipes. The soda bread is a lovely bread with soup and a nice cup of tea, the bread and butter pickles go with anything at all. I have them on my burgers with jigs dinner, fish and brewis, and more. I reuse most of my caps, the only time I toss them if they have been damaged, they cost money and if it seals the jars thats all that matters. 🙂 Enjoy and have a lovely day. Bonita
Hello, I am going to try this but was wondering if I could maybe use something other than onions? My husband does not fancy them. Or should I just stick to mustard pickles.
Hi Christine: Thank you for your message and for stopping by, for sure you can use another vegetable. You can also use onion powder for that flavour of onion if you wish. What is your husbands favourite vegetable, maybe use cauliflower, pearl onions are nice and can be picked out. All the best and I hope you get to make our recipe and enjoy. 🙂 Bonita
I am about to make the pickles. You have bay leaf and pickling spice in cheesecloth listed as an ingredient. You didn’t mention the amount nor is it listed where to add.
Hi Catherine: Thank you for your message and for stopping by, I’m glad you are making our recipe for bread and butter pickles. I’m not sure if you watched the video but you only need and 1 tbsp of the spices and 2 or 3 bay leaves. I guess because I showed it in the video I must have missed it in the recipe. Enjoy Bonita
Hi Bonita,
I watched your video.
I made this recipe on Sunday.
Really easy to do.
I am making another batch tonight.
Delicious!
That is wonderful Sandra, I’m so glad you enjoyed our bread and pickles recipe. They get even tastier the longer they are pickling. Enjoy to the fullest. 🙂 Bonita
your bread/butter pickles are great,but, i use english cucumbers,they hold the crunch better.love all your recipes
Hi Joan: Thank you for your message and for stopping by, I’m glad you enjoyed our recipe but having the english cucumbers are lovely. 🙂 Have a lovely day….Bonita
For pickles, should the middle (seeds/core) be taken out or leave it there?
Hi Yvonne, No its not necessary but if you don’t want it you can remove it, these pickles are so tasty. Enjoy Bonita
im curious if any one can help out this first time pickle maker, p[ickled veggies actually, so I tried a recipe that had cinnimon in it, so tried them a week later and they were awful, so I rinsed them out and made another batch of brine vinegar, sugar and pickling spices only, but it tried them again and they still have the cinnamon taste to and it weeks it, tastes awful and I don’t want to waste 50 jars, so can anyone help me?
and maybe a good recipe sweet to dill flavored
Hi Brain, Thank you for your question and for topping by…Cinnamon is a powerful smell and it takes a lot to rid it of those bottles. Did you try washing them in a dish washer. If not soak them over night in your sink or big bucket with a cup of white vinegar.
Vinegar also works for getting smells out of your washer if stale water have built up over time.
These bread and butter pickles are lovely but we also got another tasty recipe for sweet mustard pickles https://youtu.be/yyvqd2pmGRQ?si=RVByywWiZVl0Wajm and dill pickles… https://youtu.be/sR6C_0-g0NM?si=bAMKn-ycN3uXBAMp
Hope this helps.
Bonita