It never fails. Add garlic, dill seeds, dill, hot pepper, mustard seed, and alum. Don’t skimp on the alum ~ it’s one secret of crispy pickles. Add more peppers to this dill pickle recipe if you want – ...
Place a dill head (or fronds) into each sterilised jar. Add a teaspoon of dill and mustard seeds and a garlic clove to each jar. Put the vinegar, 200ml/7fl oz water and the sugar in a large saucepan.
Fresh dill is available from supermarkets and ethnic grocers. Dried dill is a perfectly acceptable substitute to fresh, and is even preferred in some Middle Eastern dishes. Use only the leaves of ...
As you work, add the garlic and fresh herbs ... against botulism and other food-borne disease. This Universal Pickle Recipe uses vinegar for acidity, and it’s one of a class known as “vinegar ...