34 sweet mustard pickle recipes

Green tomato relish turns end-of-season unripe tomatoes into a tangy-sweet preserve spiced with allspice, cloves, mustard, and celery seed. Salted overnight to draw water, then simmered with brown sugar, vinegar, and lemon. Cans up beautifully.

Million Dollar Pickles: classic sweet bread-and-butter style pickles with cucumbers, onion, and bell peppers in a turmeric-mustard-celery seed brine. Shelf-stable home canning recipe.

India relish with cucumbers, green tomatoes, peppers, and onions in a spiced vinegar brine with turmeric, cinnamon, and mustard seeds. A classic canning recipe.

Sweet and spicy candied pickle sticks made from dill pickles soaked in sugar with cherry peppers, celery seed, and mustard seed. No cooking, just patience. Addictively crunchy.

Homemade chili sauce for canning with ripe tomatoes, sweet and hot peppers, pickling spices, and vinegar reduced by half. A classic preserved condiment processed in a boiling water bath.

Classic yellow mustard pickles with cucumbers, gherkins, pearl onions, cauliflower, and red peppers in a turmeric-mustard brine. Old-school preserving-kettle recipe that stocks a pantry.

Homemade chili sauce for canning made from 25 fresh tomatoes, red peppers, onions, and apple cider vinegar with allspice and brown sugar. A tangy-sweet condiment for preserving summer's harvest.

Italian giardiniera pickled vegetables with red peppers, cauliflower, wax beans, squash, radish, carrots, and onion in a basil-garlic brine. Water-bath canned for long pantry storage.

Preserve summer's bounty with this big-batch pickled vegetable recipe. Carrots, cauliflower, green beans, peppers, celery, and olives in a tangy vinegar brine with mustard seed and turmeric. Makes 20 pints.

Sweet gherkin pickles made the old-fashioned way with a four-day brine and gradual sugar buildup. Crisp, spiced cucumber pickles preserved with cinnamon, allspice, mustard, and clove for the pantry shelf.

Chunky pickles brine cucumbers overnight, cook in vinegar, then steep in a brown sugar pickling syrup with cinnamon, allspice, mustard, and celery seeds. Sweet old-fashioned bread-and-butter style.

Honey spear pickles with cucumbers and onions brined overnight, then canned in a sweet honey-vinegar syrup with mustard seed, celery seed, and turmeric. A golden, sweet-tangy refrigerator or canning pickle.

Old-fashioned Spanish pickles: a sweet and tangy relish of peppers, cabbage, cucumbers, tomatoes, and onions spiced with turmeric, mustard seed, and cinnamon in vinegar.

Summer cucumber crisps: refrigerator quick pickles with cloves, cinnamon, allspice, and mustard seed. Sweet-tart spiced pickle chips, no canning, ready overnight.

Classic Southern chow-chow relish: a bright yellow mustard-pickled mix of cabbage, cauliflower, green tomatoes, onions, and bell peppers. Sweet, tangy, mustardy, and turmeric-bright, water-bath canned for the pantry shelf.

Pickled sweet green tomatoes turn end-of-season fruit into spiced jewel-toned slices. Brown sugar, vinegar, and a spice bag of mustard seed, allspice, celery seed, and cloves give them a sweet-tart bite for canning.