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Basic pickling spice blend recipes

Prep Time:

10

Cook Time:

5

Serves:

Level:

About the Recipe

Use as many or as few of the spices below to created your own signature spice blend. I recommend using mustard seeds, black peppercorns or red pepper flakes, and at least one of the sweet spices (allspice, cinnamon, or cloves), and then as many of the other spices as you like.
All spices are whole spices. Do not substitute ground spices.

Ingredients

allspice berries|Bay leaves|black peppercorns|Cinnamon stick|coriander seeds|crushed red pepper flakes|dill seeds|dried minced ginger|whole cloves|yellow mustard seeds

Preparation

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