GARLIC DILL PICKLES

By Sube

If you love them hot, add the dried chiles.

Ingredients

• 12 cups of water
• 4 cups of white vinegar
• 1 cup pickling salt
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 2 tsp Alum
• 1 head of dill
• 2 + cloves peeled garlic
• 1 dried chile *add 3 or 4 chiles

Preparation

Step 1

Mix water, vinegar, pickling slat, sugar, and alum together in a large kettle and bring to a boil.

Place the following in sterilized jars, Pack well washed cucumbers into jars. Add the dill and garlic.

Process pickles in a large kettle filled with warm water to just below the neck of the jars, bring pickles to boiling and process for 10-12 minutes at boiling. Check colour of cucumbers after about 10 minutes by lifting one jar from hot water bath and looking at colour. Cucumbers should be starting to look somewhat yellow. Don't overcook (they will still continue to cook after removing from hot water bath).

Cool.

Wipe jars.

Place on shelves to cure for 4 to 6 months for flavour to develop, one year is better