I have been busy in my kitchen for the past week and expect to be even busier for the next couple of weeks. My mother-in-law introduced me to canning last year when their garden had an abundance of green beans. My husband then bought me a 16-qt pressure cooker/canner. Since that time, I have not done much canning. This year, my uncle's garden had an over abundance of turnip bottoms. My parents picked all of them but did not have much of a use for them. I asked if I could have them. Last year I had seen on a blog where someone made pickled turnips. I wanted to try them. So I did. They are very pickled (dill) and only last 1 month in the refrigerator. I, on the other hand, were expecting a taste more like pickled beets. I have only tried pickled beets this year after my Aunt Patsy (from my husband's family) gave us some she had canned. They were great. So I got her recipe this weekend and plan to make the next batches with the pickled beet recipe just replacing the beets with turnips.
Well, my Aunt Annie, who is a great cook and cans a lot of things, gave us some Cinnamon Pickles one year made out of cucumbers. We loved them. So I decided to try this recipe with the turnips as well. It is a 5 day process to make these but well worth it. They are wonderful. You would never know that they are turnips. So I have decided that this recipe is a keeper.
I have a lot of work ahead of my with these turnips. My wonderful parents peeled and cut all of them for me. So I now have at least 6 more batches of turnips to can in the next few days. Wish me luck. If anyone would like to try some of them, let me know.
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