Grandma's Pickles

Every Christmas, we look forward to a batch of these pickles. You just can't find them in the store to get close to how Grandma does them. She knows we like them so much that we started getting jars of them each holiday dinner. As the years have passed, we now each get our own jar since one jar to share didn't last through February. They take time to make, but they're well worth wait.

Ingredients

• Two packs of Pride of the Meadows Pickles
• 4 tablespoons of salt
• 3 tablespoons of mixed pickling spice
• 1 Gallon of apple cider vinegar
• 7 cups of sugar

Directions

1. Wash pickles
2. Pack whole pickles into 1 gallon jar
3. Add 4 tablespoons of salt and 3 tablespoons of mixed pickling spice to pickles
4. Pour apple cider vinegar over pickles to fill jar
5. Close jar, cover, and let stand in a cool, dark place for two months
6. After two months have passed, open jar and pour out vinegar solution
7. Wash pickles well and wash jar
8. Slice pickles and put them back into jar
9. Add 7 cups of sugar and fill cup with water
10. Store in cool, dry place and shake every couple days until sugar is dissolved
11. After sugar is dissolved, pickles are ready to eat!