dill pickles

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Recipe by
Tim Hankel
Cathedral City, CA

This recipe came from one of the women that Grandma Deutscher used to clean house for. Very tasty and just a reminder, that you will not make a successful pickle if your home is hooked up to a water softener.

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(2)
yield serving(s)
cook time 25 Min

Ingredients For dill pickles

  • pickling cucumbers
  • dried red peppers
  • garlic cloves
  • alum
  • 1-2
    stalks of dill
  • 10 c
    water
  • 3/4 c
    pickling salt
  • 2 c
    apple cider vinegar

How To Make dill pickles

  • 1
    Wash and gently scrub the pickling cucumbers
  • 2
    Using hot sterilized quart jars, put 1-2 heads of dill, 1-2 sliced cloves of garlic and 2-3 dried red peppers in each jar.
  • 3
    Combine the water, salt and vinegar in pan and bring to a boil. Pour over packed cucumbers in each jar, leaving 1/2 inch head space so that jars will seal correctly.
  • 4
    Put 1/4 teaspoon of alum in each jar prior to sealing. Process in a hot water bath for 25 minutes.
  • 5
    **We like to add carrot and celery sticks, and sliced onion in addition to the cucumber.

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