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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

They look great. I've got to find some pickling cucks, I want to try a batch of fermented pickles. They would go good along with my sauerkraut and sourdough that I made last week.


DarrinG