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| Sweet & Dill Pickles |
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| Category: Pickles & Relishes |
Kitchen of: Phyllis Lyons |
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| Ingredients: |
| 1 gal | | Whole Pickles, washed (a) |
| 1 | cup | Pickling Salt (a) |
| 1 gal | | Water (a) |
| 1 | tbsp | Alum (b) |
| 6 | cups | Sugar (c) |
| 3 | cups | White Vinegar (c) |
| 1 | cup | Sugar (d) |
| 1 | cup | Sugar (e) |
| 1/4 | tsp | Cinnamon Oil (e) |
| 1 | tbsp | Celery Seed (e) |
| 1 | tbsp | Dill Seed (e) |
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| Instructions: |
| 1. | This will take 13 days |
| 2. | Day 1 to 7; Mix (a) ingredients together - be sure water covers pickles |
| 3. | Day 8; Drain and cover with boiling water |
| 4. | Day 9; Drain and cover with boiling water in which alum has been dissolved |
| 5. | Day 10; Drain and cover with boiling water |
| 6. | Day 11; Drain and slice or chunk pickles |
| 7. | Heat (c) ingredients together and pour over pickles |
| 8. | Day 12; Drain and reheat same syrup, adding (d) sugar |
| 9. | Day 13; Drain and reheat same syrup, adding (e) ingredients |
| 10. | Can as usual |
| 11. | Note: It will get mold on, but that is okay. Just skim the mold off |
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| Recipe submitted 12/19/2006 |