This Homemade Pickling Spice Recipe couldn’t be easier! It will be so much fresher than the premade stuff you buy at the grocer!
I go through lots of Homemade Pickling Spice! This Pickling Spice Recipe is used in this Slow Cooker Corned Venison Recipe, Homemade Corned Venison, cucumber pickles (which I have yet to post, but will soon), zucchini pickles, pickled red cabbage (which I am totally making tomorrow), and sauerkraut.
One of the benefits of making your own spice blends is that you use up the spices you have on hand. They say that you should use your spices within 6 months of purchase. Now, I don’t always adhere to that. Case in point being, the cream of tartar and the cloves in my pantry from circa 1975, lol! 🙂 If you don’t have all of the ingredients on hand, it may be cheaper to buy a pre-mixed blend. I prefer to make my own. We have an independent Mennonite grocery store and they have bulk everything, so I buy all of my spices from them. They are so much cheaper than the spice blends at a regular grocer. Bulk departments of many grocery stores will have spices, as well. That is always a more economical option too. I only make a large batch, once per year, and keep it in an airtight mason jar, to use when I need it.
Ingredients Used to Make Pickling Spice
You can customize this spice blend to your tastes, as well. Some traditional ingredients include;
- Bay leaves
Mustard seeds (yellow or brown),
Peppercorns (black, white, red, or green),. Other optional ingredients include; Allspice berries
Cardamom seeds
Celery seeds
Dried chili peppers (whole or flakes)
Cinnamon sticks
Coriander seeds
Whole cloves
Dill seeds
Fennel seeds
Dried ginger
Juniper berries
Mace blades
Star anise
I only use a few of the optional ingredients, (see recipe below).
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Thanks for stopping by today! I hope this Pickling Spice Recipe is useful to you! Do you make your own spice blends? What is your favorite? Leve me a comment below!
Enjoy! And have fun cooking!
Homemade Pickling Spice
Ingredients
- 1/2 T. mustard seed
- 1/2 T. coriander seed
- 1 tsp. whole black pepper
- 1 tsp. dill seed
- 1 tsp. whole allspice
- 1 bay leaf
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients in a bowl and use for Corned Beef in the Slow cooker and Homemade Corned Venison
Notes
Nutrition
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This is great! I never know that making your own spice blends is so easy and I am excited to try this. thank you for sharing.
It is super easy! Thanks Melve!
We keep saying we should pickle a bit more, and what better prompt than to make our own pickling spices.
I like to preserve food. It’s fun to run down in my pantry and grab something that was fresh from the garden! Thanks Caroline!
Fun! I definitely have to make this recipe. I want to get into pickling and this spice mix looks perfect!
Thank you Elaine! I love making pickles and relish! So much better than store bought!
I have plenty of jars that are loooooong past their expiry dates too! Bulk buying is a great solution that I need to do more of. Your spice blend sounds great! When I make pickles I usually just throw in a few dill seeds and peppercorns and call it a day, but I’ll have to try this next time!
I hear ya! You by a spice for one dish and then it sits in the back of the pantry for years! Lol! Thanks Ann!
Oh pickles! Me and my daughter can live with pickles and could not without.
This recipe is amazing and absolutely true, so good to have in hand – you buy the supermarket ones but I truthfully only trust my own. Good to know what’s in.
Recipe saved ????????thanks so much for sharing this ????
Absolutely! Glad it is a help to you! Thanks, Ramona!
This is a great idea! I really like! I definitely want to try this! Thank you for sharing this great post!
Thanks so much, Veena! I hope you like it!
This is such a great idea. It’s so simple and more than handy!
It is so very easy! Thank you Ginny! I appreciate your comment.
I have always wanted to make my own pickles! My daughter is a pickle-a-holic!
Pickles are quite easy to make! My son is a pickle-a-holic, too! Thanks for the comment, Sandi!
This is so great to have on hand! Thank you!
Sure! Thanks for your comment, Jenn!