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Homemade Pickling Spice Recipe

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This Homemade Pickling Spice Recipe couldn’t be easier! It will be so much fresher than the premade stuff you buy at the grocer!

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Homemade Pickling Spice

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.

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).

These Kilnar Clip Top Jars are great for storing spice blends and they are decorative enough to sit out on my counter! (Affiliate link)

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!

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Recipe

5 from 8 votes
pickling spice in glass bowl with bulk spices in background
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Homemade Pickling Spice
Prep Time
5 mins
Total Time
5 mins
 

Making your own spice blends is so easy and a great way to use up spices, so that you always have fresh in your pantry! This Homemade Pickling Spice is no exception!

Course: Spice Mixes
Cuisine: American
Servings: 3 tbsp.
Calories: 5 kcal
Author: Binky
Ingredients
  • 1/2 T. mustard seed
  • 1/2 T. coriander seed
  • 1 tsp. black peppercorns
  • 1 tsp. dill seed
  • 1 tsp. whole allspice
  • 1 bay leaf
Instructions
  1. Mix all ingredients in a bowl and use for Corned Beef in the Slow cooker and Homemade Corned Venison 

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  5. 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 👌

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  6. 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!

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