Hot n honey pickled carrots

Free Pickle Recipe - Hot n Honey Pickled Carrots

Courtesy of R.A. Turner

HOT N HONEY PICKLED CARROTS

Baby Carrots 1lb 5 lb 25 lbs
White Vinegar 1 cup 4 cups 1 gallon
Water ½ cup 2 cups 2 qts.
Salt 2 teas. 2 table 6 table.
Honey ¼ cup 1 ½ cup 4 cups
Onions 1cup 3 lb. 5 lbs
Garlic
(whole cloves) 8 1 heads 5 heads
Jalapeno
(sliced, ½ cup 2 cups 8 cups
fresh or canned)
Black Pepper
Corns 1 tea. 2 table 6 tables
(cracked)
Dried Cilantro 2 teas 2 Table ¼ cup

Combine vinegar, water, salt, peppercorns and clintro
in sauce pan. Bring to a boil and simmer for 10
minutes and let set for 30. Strain and return to heat
and add honey.

Peel garlic and set aside.
Slice onions into 8ths or smaller depending on the
size of the onions.
Bring large pan of water to a boil and blanch carrots
for 3 minutes.
Remove carrots and blanch the garlic, onions and fresh
peppers.
Combine onions, carrots and peppers. Pack hot carrots
into jars. Stuff a couple of gloves of garlic in each
jar. (Yes you can use more)
Fill jars with hot syrup.
Cap and process in Hot water bath for 10 minutes.

Let set a couple of weeks before serving.
You can leave out the jalapenos and use 2 small dried
hot peppers to each jar. Add at the same time you add
the garlic. Or you can use both.
The number of jars will vary depending on how heavy
you stuff the jars.

These are great served with cheese and crackers or
with a bowl of bean soup. On a antipasti platter, in
chicken salad or added to a pasta salad.

1 lb carrots recpie makes 4 half pints
5 lb carrots makes 10 pints
25 lb carrots makes approxmitley 44 pints