My husband and I love garlic, and pickled garlic cloves. My hometown has an Elephant Garlic festival each year (I don’t use the actual name for my security questions) and I was wondering if there was a way to safely waterbath can pickled cloves of elephant garlic.
We were thinking of using the Ball recipe or this one: [https://extension.oregonstate.edu/food/preservation/preserving-garlic-sp-50-645](https://extension.oregonstate.edu/food/preservation/preserving-garlic-sp-50-645)
The main issue is elephant garlic cloves are much bigger. Would cutting them in half (or thirds) lengthwise be fine, or should we just mince/slice them and use them for a different canning recipe?
by Axiluvia
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You can pickle elephant garlic just fine. Per Oregon State extension, they even mention elephant garlic specifically:
https://extension.oregonstate.edu/food/preservation/preserving-garlic-sp-50-645
Even within allium sativum you’re going to have variation of clove size. Some are tiny and some are huge. I grow the music type of garlic and my cloves are massive. They pickle just fine.