Pick some dill

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Pick some cukes

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assemble all your ingredients

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put some dill and garlic in your sterilized jars

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pack in the cukes

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pour in the boiling brine and seal. There you are 11 and 1/2 gallons of dills

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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

That's beautiful man!!

Big Dude!....ya do everything Big Time!.......Just awesome.

Big Guy: That is just "Sweet". You are the man, Kudos and poi-nts. You need to send me a pickel.lol

Excellent!
That's cool.
Do the jars vacuum seal that way?
Do you store em on the shelf or refrig?

SKOL
V

Nice post and pics. I will have to try that one of these days.

That there is the bomb man!! I love dill pickles. I'd pay fer a jar o them. poi-nts

Looks great! That dill looks different than what I used from the grocery store. It was fresh but not the same. I'll have to grow some of it myself next year.

Great looking dills! Thanks for the pics.

Excellent!
That's cool.
Do the jars vacuum seal that way?
Do you store em on the shelf or refrig?

SKOL
V

The jars seal as they cool down. Once opened they need to go in the fridge.

Good looking pickles Big Guy!:thumb:

man thats a lot of pickles...nice job....do you keep all of those or do you give them away....

I make them and eat a few but my son and his girlfriend just mow through them. LOL