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Watermelon Pickles

Source of Recipe

from about com, maybe, I am not sure


List of Ingredients

Watermelon Pickles

cut up watermelon
8 c. water
3 c. sugar
2 c. white vinegar
1/2 c. salt
1 3/4oz. pickling spice
(use 1/2 and tie up in cheese cloth)
dill
dried hot red peppers
garlic cloves
strips of green pepper

Put the sugar, vinegar, salt and pickling spice together in a cheesecloth and boil in the water.
In sterilized jars, put in dill, one hot dried red pepper, and one garlic clove.
Then add watermelon chunks, a strip of green pepper and another layer of dill.
If you like them hot, another pepper and garlic clove.
Pour the hot brine into the jars.
Seal the jars and put in a hot water bath, for five minutes.
Remove the jars from the bath and let them to cool, undisturbed, for several hours or until the lids pop and seal.
This recipe makes about 8 quarts.
You may save the extra brine and use it for another batch.
The green peppers will discolor when cooked.
If you do not tie up the pickling spice in cheese cloth when boiled, the brine should be strained before putting it into the jars.


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