Cucumbers with citric acid for the winter without vinegar 🥒

Kitchen appliances and utensils: electric oven, pan, kitchen scale and other measuring accessories, several bowls of different sizes and depths, a three-liter glass jar, paper towels, a lid, a preserving device, a lid with holes, a sharp knife, and a cutting board.

Ingredients

Step cooking

1. Before directly preserving the cucumbers, wash the vegetables thoroughly, and then fill them with clean cold water and leave them in this form for 3-4 hours. After this time, drain the water and wipe the cucumbers dry with paper towels. We take a three-liter glass jar, which must be sterilized in advance, and put 6 sheets of cherries and 3 bay leaves on its bottom. If there are currant or oak leaves, then be sure to add them. We cut two large cloves of garlic in half, and then chop them coarsely with a knife. Sliced ​​garlic, unlike whole, gives preservation an amazing rich aroma, since cucumbers absorb it better.
   
2. Then we send half the hot red pepper, after cutting the product into 3-4 pieces. The amount of hot pepper depends solely on your taste. There we spread 1 leaf of horseradish and 2 sprigs of celery, cutting them in advance into 3-4 parts. Next, pour 10 g of dill seeds into a jar and shake the jar well.
   
3. Now came the turn of cucumbers. We put larger vegetables down, and fill the top with small cucumbers.
   
4. We lay the cucumbers tightly, filling the jar to the very neck. On top of rammed cucumbers we spread 10 g of allspice peas. Gently pour cucumbers with boiling water, then close the jar with a lid and a hole.
   
5. Drain the water back into the pan in which it was boiling.
   
6. Pour 40 g of salt and 40 g of granulated sugar into the drained water. Stir everything well and bring the brine to a boil again.
   
7. Meanwhile, pour boiling water into a small bowl and lower the iron lid into it, with which we will roll up a jar of cucumbers. In a can of preservation, add 20 g of citric acid. As soon as the brine begins to boil, boil it for 2 minutes and fill it in a jar over the cucumbers.
   
8. We cover the jar with the contents of the lid and immediately roll it up with a special device. We turn the jar with cucumbers upside down, put it in a dark place and wrap it in a warm blanket.
   
9. We leave preservation in this form for the night, and in the morning we transfer to the cellar or any other cool place where the cucumbers will be stored until winter.
   

Video recipe

This video shows in detail how to make canned cucumbers with lemon sourness, according to the instructions of the above recipe.