Pickle Crisp Granule

Pickle Crisp is a granulated form of food-grade calcium chloride intended to replace pickling lime. The directions on the container call for adding a rounded ? teaspoon to a quart jar or a rounded 1/8 teaspoon to a pint jar, along with the vegetable or fruit pieces and the pickling liquid. One jar will yield 80 quarts of pickles, compared to 16 quarts of pickles with one bag of lime