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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
- Wash cucumbers, and drop into a pan of cold water and let set overnight.
- Next morning, pack into hot sterile jars.
Into each jar add:
- Alum, 1 clove of garlic, 2 heads dill, fresh with seeds, 1 very small hot pepper.
- Combine 1 quart vinegar, 1 cup pure salt and 3 quarts water.
- Heat to boiling.
- 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.
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