Daily Canning

I just tried the first jar of these pickles, and they are delicious! So here is the recipe!

Sweet Pickles!

Ingredients:

lemon cucumbers

onions

red pepper

vinegar

water

mustard seed

celery seed

turmeric

garlic cloves

grape leaves

First combine:

cucumbers sliced thin

half the quantity of cucumbers in thinly sliced onions.

a couple of red peppers, as many as you want to add color.

Mix cucumbers, onions, and peppers in a bowl with salt. Let stand for 2 hours. Drain.

Brine:

Combine vinegar and water and sugar in these proportions:

2 vinegar 2 water 1.5 sugar

Add mustard seed and celery seed in equal proportions and half as much tumeric

Bring to a boil.

Processing:

In the hot sterilized jars add two garlic cloves, one grape leaf, pack full of cucumber/onion/pepper mix, fill with the boiling vinegar mixture, leaving 1/4 inch head room, then put in a canning bath for ten minutes.

These are SO GOOD. These should become a yearly standard.