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In a recent canning session, we had a canning failure. While this failure is common for many, this was the first time we experienced it. This occurred in our canning session for bread and butter pickles which we shared recently on our blog. This was disappointing but we tried to remind ourselves that it can happen to anyone. And no one, not even the most experienced canners are able to avoid this completely.
We harvested another round of cucumbers from our garden and wanted to bring you along in our process of canning bread and butter pickles. We decided to preserve these as bread and butter pickles since we previously canned dill pickles. We weren’t able to find a recipe in the Blue Ball Canning Book for these pickles and therefore had to review several recipes online and develop our own bread and butter pickle recipe. As you scour the internet, you will find many variations to this recipe. We found many recipes where people made refrigerator pickles and did not can the pickles, however, we wanted to find a canning recipe so that we could add these pickles to our long-term food storage in our pantry. The great thing is that any pickle recipe can be canned.