Marinade for cucumbers with vinegar
A cucumber marinade made with 1 liter of water and 9% vinegar is a sweet and sour sauce with spices. The cucumbers in this marinade are crispy and incredibly delicious, and the brine will find its fans. To easily calculate the volume of water needed for canning, fill the jars with vegetables, pour water into them, drain and measure.
It takes 5 minutes to prepare. This amount of marinade is enough to fill several jars of vegetables.
Ingredients for the marinade:
- spring water – 1 l;
- coarse table salt – 45-55 g;
- granulated sugar – 55-75 g;
- 9% vinegar – 80-90 ml;
- bay leaf, pepper, coriander, mustard seeds, caraway seeds, currant leaves.
How to prepare a marinade for cucumbers
Pour spring or filtered water into a saucepan. Don't use tap water for making brines and marinades. If spring water is difficult to obtain, use filtered water.
For every liter of water, you need 45 to 55 grams of plain table salt. If you're using coarse salt, this amount will fit in 3 level tablespoons.
Measure out the salt and pour it into a saucepan with water.
Next, measure out the granulated sugar and pour it into the saucepan after the salt. A level tablespoon holds 15 grams of sugar.
Next, add the spices to the marinade. Since the spices aren't sterile, it's best to boil them first. Moreover, boiling them will release their aroma into the water, resulting in a fragrant marinade.
In addition to the spices, I recommend adding currant and cherry leaves to the saucepan. The greens on the trees are also not sterile, so additional heat treatment won't harm them.
Bring the mixture to a boil, boil for 3-4 minutes, remove from the stove.
At this stage, add 9% vinegar. I usually add 2 tablespoons of vinegar per 1-liter jar of cucumbers. One liter of marinade is enough for three liter jars tightly filled with cucumbers, so 80-90 ml of vinegar for this amount of water is sufficient.
The marinade is ready, all that remains is to pour it into jars with prepared cucumbers and roll up the vegetables for the winter.
