Recently I took out a jar of cucumbers from the cellar, and the marinade is cloudy. I took another from the same batch - the same thing. And I had 8 cans in this batch. What a failure! For the first time, such that my cucumbers turned cloudy, and the whole batch.
I began to call my mother and ask what to do. She told me how to "save" the cucumbers.
In general, cucumbers become cloudy if the wrong variety is chosen for pickling, the cooking rules are violated, or the cans are not tightly rolled up. But I have a good variety (cucumbers should be "pimpled"), and I could not roll up all 8 cans leaky. Most likely, something went wrong during the preparation process, although I have been rolling this recipe for many years and everything has always been great. Anyway...
I am telling you how I saved cucumbers.
To begin with, I tried one small cucumber - it tasted just fine, as usual. If the cucumbers are moldy, falling apart, smell unpleasant or tasteless, this is a marriage, we throw them away, there is no way to save them. And if the cucumbers are normal, then you can easily fix everything.
So, we drain the cloudy brine or marinade. If there are dill sprigs on top, garlic - you can remove. If the herbs and cloves of garlic are somewhere inside the jar, then don't touch it. We don’t touch the cucumbers either, we don’t take them out of the jar! No need to rinse cucumbers or a jar! We leave it as it is.
Making a new marinade / pickle, take your usual recipe. At the same time, we sterilize the lids. Then fill the cucumbers with a new marinade, roll them up.
This is what I did back in early September. Almost three months have passed, the cucumbers have not become cloudy, the taste has not changed - ordinary pickled cucumbers, as if they did not grow cloudy.
This is my way. Write in the comments if your cucumber jars are getting cloudy? If so, what are you doing? Maybe you have a better way?
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