Pick some dill
Pick some cukes
assemble all your ingredients
put some dill and garlic in your sterilized jars
pack in the cukes
pour in the boiling brine and seal. There you are 11 and 1/2 gallons of dills
the recipe note I did a 9X batch in the pics.
Dill Pickles
6 Qt. basket dill cucumbers, washed.
Dill weed
Garlic cloves
Pickling salt
Vinegar
Calcium chloride
Ice
Grape leaves
Brine
2 cups vinegar
10 cups water
3/4 cup salt
1 tsp. calcium chloride
1 tsp Tumeric
Soak the cucumbers in ice water for at least 2 hrs but not longer than 6.
Place a bunch of dill in a quart jar, and a clove of garlic.
Pack in the cucumbers. Top with more dill weed, another garlic clove .
Fill jar with boiling brine, top with a grape leaf and seal. Let sit for 8 weeks before using.
Yield = 6 Qt. jars