Fire and Ice Pickles

These are a wonderful gift! For Christmas we made jars and passed them out to our neighbors and friends. If you love pickles try these.

• Ready In: 30 mins
• Yields: 1 gallon

Ingredients

• 1  gallon dill pickles or 1  gallon sour dill pickle
• 4  lbs granulated sugar
• 2  tablespoons mustard seeds
• 10  bay leaves
• 10  peeled garlic cloves
• 1 (2 ounce) bottle Tabasco sauce

Directions

1. Empty gallon jar of pickles into a large bowl, throwing away the juice.
2. Cut the pickles into 1-inch chunks.
3. Return the pickles into the jar, alternating with all other ingredients listed above.
4. Put lid on jar and leave sitting out on kitchen counter until sugar has turned into liquid (about three days).
5. Refrigerate.
6. If giving as a gift, distribute evenly into smaller jars.
7. This is great with bland turkey sandwiches at Thanksgiving and Christmas!