Icicle Pickles, canned

By kddozier

Ingredients

• Peel cucumbers, remove seeds & slice lengthwise in finger thin spears. (Best to use overgrown, almost overripe cukes).
• In bottom of jars place 2-3 cloves garlic & 1 red pepper (chilies).
• 6 1/4 cups sugar
• 2 1/2 cups white vinegar
• 3 1/4 cups hard water

Preparation

Step 1

Fill jars with cucumbers.

Bring to boil:
6 ¼ cups sugar
2 ½ cups white vinegar
3 ¼ cups hard water


Pour hot solution over top to fill within 1/2 inch of top of jars.
Put a sprig of fresh dill on top & seal jars.

To seal – place jars in a water-bath cooker & bring to a boil. Take off heat & leave jars in cooker until cool.

(I make pints instead of quarts!)

Don’t ask me how many cucumbers to buy…..I eyeball it & fill however many jars I end up with.