The Pickling Queens

I have decided that with all of the pickles Lisa and I have processed so far this summer that we can officially call ourselves "The Pickling Queens".  Yesterday we had a marathon session of making pickles and doing some experimenting with them.  We picked over 100 pickling cucumbers on Saturday and Monday and we knew we were going to have to process them.  I decided to run a little contest on Facebook asking how many jars of pickles would we make with over 100 pickling cucumbers.  If you did not see the post then take a quick guess as to how many jars. We ended up making 35 jars of pickles.  We made three new varieties, 5 quarts of sugar free Bread & Butter pickles,  4 pints of bread & butter sandwich slices and 9 pints of dill sandwich slices.  We also made 13 quarts of bread & butter pickles, 3 quarts of dill hamburger slices and 1 quart of cucumber salad for total of 35 jars of pickles.  We did have our first casualty during the canning process.  We lost a pint of dill sandwich slices when we put the jar in boiling water.  The bottom of the jar broke off in the water.  We knew this could and would happen eventually and at least we only lost one jar.  So, after 8 hours of making pickles Lisa and I are will gladly accept our new title as "The Pickling Queens".