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!

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!

Recipe

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Homemade Pickling Spice

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

Keyword homemade spice mix,, pickling spice,, spice mix for pickling,

Prep Time 5 minutes

Total Time 5 minutes

Servings 3 tbsp.

Calories 18kcal

Author Beth Neels

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

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

• Mix all ingredients in a bowl and use for Corned Beef in the Slow cooker and Homemade Corned Venison 

Nutrition

Calories: 18kcal | Carbohydrates: 3g | Sodium: 2mg | Potassium: 36mg | Fiber: 1g | Vitamin C: 0.8% | Calcium: 3.4% | Iron: 3.4%

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