Festive pickles
Festive pickles recipe in the canning category
Recipe ingredients:
- 1, 1 quart, jar dill pickles, about 12
- 1 small jar maraschino cherries
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup white vinegar
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 stick cinnamon, crushed
- 1 teaspoon whole cloves
- 1 teaspoon mixed pickling spices
- 2 bay leaves
Recipe method:
- Drain pickles and cherries, cut pickles crosswise into 1 inch thin slices.
- Using a corer, remove center from each piece of pickle.
- Insert a cherry into each.
- Put pickle chunks into a shallow dish. Set aside.
- Mix remaining ingredients together in a saucepan.
- Bring to boiling, simmer 5 minutes.
- Pour the spice mixture through a sieve over the pickles.
- Cover and set in refrigerator for 1 week before serving.
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