watermelon pickles

Name: Watermelon Pickles
Yield: 3
Ingredients: 2 pound(s) watermelon rind; 4 cup(s) sugar; 2 cup(s) white vinegar; 2 cup(s) water; 1 - lemon, thinly sliced (optional_; 2 tablespoon(s) cinnamon bark; 1 tablespoon(s) whole cloves (adjust down if you don't like to much clove taste)

(2 ratings)

Traditional Watermelon Rind Pickles from Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book

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Recipe by

Tim Hankel

@Teepeeca

Cathedral City, CA

This is a sweet pickled watermelon rind recipe. For a change of pace, check out my other recipe for Red Watermelon Pickles.

(2 ratings)

yield 3 pints

Ingredients For watermelon pickles

2 lb

watermelon rind
4 c

sugar
2 c

white vinegar
2 c

water
1

lemon, thinly sliced (optional_
2 Tbsp

cinnamon bark
1 Tbsp

whole cloves (adjust down if you don't like to much clove taste)

How To Make watermelon pickles

1
Trim dark green and pink parts of rind; cut rind in 1-inch cubes. Soak overnight in salt water-1/4 cup coarse-medium l to 1 quart water; rrn; rinse and cover with cold water. Cook just tender; drain.

2
Combine sugar, vinegar, water, lemon, and spices tied in a gab. Simmer 10 minutes.
3
Remove spice bag; add watermelon rind. Simmer until clear. Fill hot sterilized jars to to 1/2 inch from top. Seal. (This means hot water bath, for approximately 15 minutes)
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