Apply Directions: Create a recipe using available materials at home or in the backyard in any of the five traditional techniques in food preservation discussed in this module namely: salting, drying, pickling, fermentation and pasteurization. You may combine different techniques like salting and drying, drying and pickling, pasteurization, pickling and fermentation, etc. in your recipe. Rubric for assessment Title Ingredients and materials Excellent (10 pts) Student used a catchy title to attract readers Student cited all the ingredients and materials needed for the recipe Good (8pts) Student used a clear but less attractive title Student cited some ingredients and materials needed for the recipe Fair (5 pts) Student used a dull and boring title Student cited only few ingredients and materials needed for the recipe Less informative and steps are poorly arranged Procedure Grammar Very informative Somewhat and steps are informative and arranged in steps are logical order properly arranged Entire recipe has Entire recipe has no spelling, few spelling, punctuation or punctuation and grammatical minimal errors grammatical errors Entire recipe has so many spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors
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Quick Fresh-pack Dill Pickles
8 pounds of 3- to 5-inch pickling cucumbers
2 gallons water
1¼ cups canning or pickling salt
1½ quarts vinegar (5%)
¼ cup sugar
2 quarts water
2 tablespoons whole mixed pickling spice
about 3 tablespoons whole mustard seed (1 teaspoon per pint jar)
about 14 heads of fresh dill (1½ heads per pint jar) or 4½ tablespoons dill seed (1½ teaspoons per pint jar)
Yield: 7 to 9 pints
Procedure: Wash cucumbers. Leave ¼ inch of cucumber stem ends attached but cut 1/16-inch slice off the blossom end. Dissolve ¾ cup of salt in 2 gallons of water. Pour the brine water over the cucumbers and let stand 12 hours. Drain. Combine vinegar, ½ cup of salt, sugar and 2 quarts of water. Add mixed pickling spices tied in a clean white cloth. Heat to boiling. Fill jars with cucumbers. Add 2 teaspoons of mustard seed and three heads of fresh dill per quart. Cover with boiling liquid, leaving ½ inch of head space. Adjust the lids and process jars as described in Table 1 or use the low-temperature pasteurization treatment described under “Canning Procedure.”