Sweet Pickles
Sweet Pickles
Ingredients
- 3/4 cups pickling salt
- 2-3 lbs pickling cucumbers, washed and sliced width wise
- 3 cups sugar
- 2 cups vinegar
- 2 T. pickling spices
Instructions
- Stir pickling salt into sliced cucumbers in a large non-metallic container and let stand overnight in refrigerator.
- Rinse cucumbers thoroughly the next day with cold water and pack into your pre-sterilized canning jars.
- Mix remaining ingredients until sugar is dissolved; bring to a boil. Slowly pour over cucumbers.
- Clean pint jars, leaving ½-inch headspace, wipe rims. Add lids and rings. Process in water bath for 15 minutes for pints (start timing when water boils)
- Makes 2-3 pints