Dill Pickles

I have wanted to learn how to make dill pickles, so today I had grandma Ludean show me how she does it. It was so easy and now I can do it all on my own. Makenna was very helpful with cleaning the cucumbers and bottles to get them all ready. Jackson and Makenna enjoyed watching some cartoons and eating apples at grandma Ludeans while we made the pickles.

Recipe for making Dill Pickles:

1 cup apple cider vinegar

3 cups water

2 TBsp salt(plain-don't use iodized salt)

1 TBsp sugar

Dill

1 Clove garlic

Be sure to wash cucumbers and get all pricklies off, wash bottles. Put a stalk of dill and 1 clove of garlic into each bottle.(Make sure to dip the dill stalk into boiling water to make sure there are no bugs on it) Heat vinegar, water, salt, and sugar on the stove in a pan. Bring to a boil and stir. Fill bottles as tight as possible with cucumbers(Don't let the cucmbers be taller than the neck of the bottle) Fill bottles with liquid up to the neck of the bottle. Process in water bath for 20 min. Start time as soon as you turn oven on and place bottles in water bath. Remove and let cool.