Instructions: Salad cucumbers are too soft and will not produce the crispness that pickling cucumbers do.

Peppers:
Jalapenos, Poblanos, Green Chiles, Arbols, or 1/2 Habanero, your choice, depending on how hot you want your pickles.

Dont use mild peppers like the bells. Taste wont be nearly as good.

Wash cucumbers and let stand in cold water overnight. I put them in a deep pot and fill about 3/8 full of water and add ice cubes on top. Cover tight with aluminum foil. This keeps the cold in and insures crispness Pack in hot sterilized jars. Also sterilize the lids and rings.( I do mine in the dishwasher). Slice cucumbers in quarters, lengthwise. Get more into a jar that way. To each quart,on top of the cucumbers, add above amount of alum, garlic, dill, peppers, onion. The combined salt, water, vinegar will have been heated to boiling so as to be ready to fill jars when you have the cucumbers, etc. added. I use a ladle to dip from pot to jar. fill to top of pickles, but leave some room between solution and rim of jar. I leave about 1". Wipe the rim of the jar and carefully screw the lids as tight as you can.(Some people simply tighten the lids and let the hot liquid in the jars do the job of sealing the jars.) Let set on counter on a dish towel until all jars seal - pop).

I prefer the boiling method to seal the jars. I Submerge jars in deep cooking pot about 1/2 full of water, ( may take several pots depending on how many jars you end up with), Make sure that tops of jars are completely covered with water, to a depth of at least 1 1/2" deep above top of jars.

If you do not cover the jars, they will explode! After a 10 minute boil, them on my butcher bloc on a dish towel. If properly sealed, you should hear the jar lids "pop" starting in about 10 minutes. May take several hours for all jars to pop. For those jars that do not pop, I retighten the jar lids and repeat the boiling.

Makes 6 - 8 quarts. Let sit for 2-3
weeks. Then ready to eat. The longer they sit, the hotter they get!

I usually open my first jar of a new batch within a couple of days. Itll last me about a week, then the other jars will be close to schedule as I get to them. LOL The only difference I find in a jar opened in a day or two and those that sit for at least a week is the hotness and not as much

"whang", which is TEXAN for "BITE"!

Enjoy your Hot Pickles, but beware, theyre habit forming!

Cheers !

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