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Step 9. After an hour of refrigerating the pickles, you can see a color change and that the pickles have softened somewhat. Step 10. Make sure to sterilize your glass jars and lids.

Ingredients You'll Need White sugar. You can use less if you prefer your pickles less sweet. White vinegar. Use 5% vinegar. You can also use apple cider vinegar. Pickling salt Mustard seed ...

Great Gherkins is ALDI's store brand of bread and butter pickles, and many testers thought they were too sweet. Others were off-put by the texture, noting they were missing a good crunch.

Indeed, cucumbers contain protein, dietary fiber, calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, zinc, folate and vitamin C, per the U.S. Department of Agriculture. "Pickled cucumbers are also ...