Pickles

Submitted by: June Shockley

This is a fun little project for an afternoon.  A jar of these pickles make a wonderful  take a long hostess gift in the fall.  I made them with "green" green pepper, but you could make them with any color of green pepper.  I love them!

Pickles
Ingredients:

7 cups unpeeled pickling cucumbers, sliced medium or as you like

1 cup coarsely chopped onion

1 cup sliced green pepper (any color will do)

1 Tbsp. salt

1 cup white vinegar

1 cup sugar

1 tsp celery salt

1 tsp mustard seed

optional 1 Tbsp red pepper flakes, this gives it ZING, if you like things hot!

Directions:

• Combine cucumbers, peppers, onion, salt and set aside
• In a saucepan bring to boil vinegar, sugar, celery seed, mustard seed, (optional red pepper flakes. Remove from heat and let cool one hour.
• Place cucumber mixture in jars, pack tightly.
• Pour cooled vinegar mixture into jars.  Wipe lip of jar with damp cloth.
• Cover jars and refrigerate.  These pickles have not been "canned" so they need to be refrigerated.  They will keep up to 2 months in the frig.
• Makes about 4 pint jars.