Mrs Boyle's Dillie Okra (Pickled Okra) Recipe at MyDish

Mrs Boyle's Dillie Okra (Pickled Okra)

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Method

  • Fill 6 clean jars with the freshly washed okra, to each jar add 2 cloves of garlic, 1 jalapeno pepper, and 1 teaspoon each of dried dill weed, dill seed, mustard seed, and a small sprig of fresh dill weed.
  • Bring the salt, water, and vinegar to a boil and fill the jars of okra, leaving a ½ inch head space. Seal and process in a hot water bath for 10 minutes cool and keep at least 2 weeks in a cool dark place before eating these pickles are better after about 6 months so if you want them for Christmas early summer is the best time to start making them.
  • Serve and Enjoy chilled with cold meats

    • Tips

    • Just imagine yourself in a wonderful pantry surrounded by shelves of beautiful home made pickled fruits and vegetables, jams and jellies, preserves and chutneys, and all the result of your own work.
      For most people here in the UK the words preserving and pickling may be synonymous with the very vinegary, soft and sour pickled onions, beetroot, red cabbage and mixed pickles or the insipid jams, jellies and preserves found on the supermarket shelf. But believe it or not, you can pickle and preserve just about anything. And what's more, the results can be very pleasing in taste, texture, and colour.

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    Ingredients

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    • YOU WILL NEED
    • 800 mls (4 cups) vinegar we use a cider vinegar it is not as harsh as malt vinegar
    • 1.6 litres (8 cups) water
    • ½ cup sea salt flakes
    • 12 cloves garlic
    • 6 whole jalapeno peppers or 1 or 2 large red chilli peppers cut into 6 strips
    • 6 teaspoons dried dill weed
    • 6 teaspoons dill seeds
    • 6 teaspoons mustard seeds
    • 1 good handful fresh dill weed
    • 2 ¼ kilos (5 pounds) fresh okra, the smaller the better

    By Views 2146  Added Tue Aug 10 2010


    Superb tender young okra in fruity brine, just the thing with cold meats

     

    When we were living in Palm Springs working for Lord and Lady Hanson, every Christmas Lady Hanson''s sister and her husband (General and Mrs Boyle from Allaway Farm, Mitchells, Virginia) would visit however prior to their visit Mrs. Boyle would send Read More