Not a fan of my wife's grandmother recipe. Is similar to yours Clint with just pouring hot brine into jars. The extra process in recipe is to kosher salt and sit for 3hrs over ice then rinse. Seems like an additional process. Why not just add salt to brine and skip the 3 hrs of sitting and rinsing ?
I'm gonna tweak the next batch and just make brine, add cukes and onions, garlic cold in jars then add brine and cann for 15 minutes as usual.
Anytime I add vegetables to a jar I sterilize jars and lids then boil 15 minutes to remove air. Haven't died yet.
Tomorrow will be busy day for sure...

As a side note.
We vacuum seal a lot of our produce and all our chickens we do here. Our hogs and beef are done with commercial equipment but word of note for a home system.
We found a certain brand in bulk 50 foot rolls are awesome. Far better than food saver brand.
Very heavy duty. We use about 300 feet a year.

Yeah, I couldn't find pickling spice the other day at the store.....just need to make my own I guess.

☝️☝️☝️ Yassssss!!

No lids or jars anywhere. I gave plenty of jars and a few dozen lids. Will freeze veggies if I have to. I forgot salt to brine to taste, usually half cup or so to the gallon, don't like them salty

☔Rain on the way today for my neighborhood in PA. Unfortunately, the weather dude say, not in a long term gentle way. (🙄) I know a poet I am not, but anyway.

NWS saying heavy rains to be expected and areas receiving multiple storms may see localized flooding.

🤥High damaging winds are also possible with the storms.

According to my weather clock, my neighborhood can see the rain begin sometime around noonish.

well...maybe no canning lids from Amazon....prices are really jacked up on there.....
 

We made our pickling spice from scratch, it wasn't to difficult really.
I had my wife look on Amazon for jar lids as I can never have to many and when she told me the price I said no way.
I'd check out the places you might not normally go , hardware stores, agway and such.

I found small mouth lids and wide mouth lids and bands at country max. I bought what they had. I have plenty of small mouth lids now and 40 or so wide so I should be good. Each place had jars , spices , pectin also. If I would of looked closer the lids with bands were only $3 less than jars lids and bands but I really dont need any more jars LOL, . When this quiets down I will try the reusable lids and pull some of the old glass lid jars from the cellar and see what got, as the rubber seals are reusable to a point. Still waiting on the first tomato, but I have plenty green. Corn 2 weeks, onions zucs and beans coming in. My cukes again only did fair and we are getting enough to eat but not pickle. I still have a later plated batch that look good with many flowers though. Rain missed us again

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eyesandgillz
well...maybe no canning lids from Amazon....prices are really jacked up on there.....
 

Whenever Walmart is sold out of lids, my local Dollar General will have lids. They are the Golden Harvest brand, but they are made by same people who make the Ball brand. They have worked great for me.

The rain has went around us again too. Syracuse got it , sandy creek got it .we got none

Watering every other day for weeks- one decent 20 minute rain a week or two back - thats it -keeps missing us.

Apple trees are aborting most all apples.
Been so very dry and now temps in the high 90s for over a week.

My apple trees (4 years old) have very few apples, but they are hanging on. What did them, plus the peaches, pears, and crabapples in my woods was 4 nights in the 20’s in a row after the trees had flowered.

Getting into drought condition locally,every time rain clouds show on radar they are near but far from me.Mowed some of my lawn yesterday and dust was billowing up in some area's,not good!