CUCUMBER SPEARS PICKLE

CUCUMBER SPEARS PICKLE
A great dill pickle recipe to try !
Ingredients

• 12 cups water
• 3 cups vinegar
• 3/4 cup pickling salt (do not substitute regular salt! You'll get dark cloudy pickles!) or 1/2 c. salt
• 2 cups sugar or 3/4 c. sugar
• dill - several clumps of flowers and leaves
• garlic cloves (optional)
• sliced onions and peppers (optional)
• pickling spices

INSTRUCTIONS
Sterilize your canning jars by heating them for 10 min. in a 250 F oven or by boiling (I prefer using the oven so I have more space). Put the lids in a saucepan and set aside for later.


Set the water, vinegar, salt and sugar to boil into a brine. Also set aside a saucepan full of water and set it to boiling. If you're using pickling spices you can put it into the brine in a mesh or metal container (if it isn't already in a tea bag), or you can add it directly to the pickle jars.


For extra protection from germs, cut off the "blossom end" of the cucumbers, but leave a little bit of stem on. The dill pickle recipe is ready !
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