DILL PICKLES
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Recipe type: Appetizer
 
Ingredients
  • Cucumbers
  • 1 quart white vinegar (must be high quality, 5% or successful pickling)
  • 1 cup salt, (use only pure salt)
  • ⅛ teaspoon alum per jar
  • clove garlic per jar
  • 2 heads of dill fresh with seeds per jar
  • 1 very small hot pepper per jar
Instructions
  1. Wash cucumbers, and drop into a pan of cold water and let set overnight.
  2. Next morning, pack into hot sterile jars.
Into each jar add:
  1. Alum, 1 clove of garlic, 2 heads dill, fresh with seeds, 1 very small hot pepper.
  2. Combine 1 quart vinegar, 1 cup pure salt and 3 quarts water.
  3. Heat to boiling.
  4. Fill jars with hot vinegar mixture and place 1 or 2 washed grape leaves on tip. Seal and process in hot water bath for 5 minutes.
Recipe by A Vintage Kitchen at https://www.avintagekitchen.com/?p=1057